Can a registrar receive an exemption from the Add Grace Period Limits Policy?

The Policy provides that a Registrar may seek an exemption from SITA for the registration fees for excess deletes made during the AGP. The Registrar must supply, on or before the last day of the month following the deletion of the domain name(s), at least the following information to SITA:

How will the Add Grace Period Limits Policy be calculated?

Registrars will no longer be entitled to a refund of the registration fee by Operators for new registrations of domain names deleted during the AGP that exceed the 10% or 50 threshold maximum number of AGP deletes in a given month, unless an exemption has been granted by SITA.

What is the Add Grace Period (AGP) Limits Policy?

On 17 December 2008, ICANN announced the implementation plan for the new Add Grace Period (AGP) Limits Policy adopted by the ICANN Board on 26 June 2008. The Add Grace Period Limits Policy allows a registrar's account to be debited each month for all AGP deletions that exceed the greater of either:

  • 50 domain names, or
  • 10% of net new adds for the previous month

What is the Add Grace Period (AGP)?

A grace period refers to a specified number of calendar days following domain registration in which the operation may be reversed and a credit may be issued to a Registrar. The Add Grace Period (AGP) is typically the five-day period following the initial registration of a domain name.

AGP was intended to allow for the no-cost cancellation of domain name registrations resulting from typos and other errors by Registrars and registrants as well as some types of fraudulent registrations.

What new reports will be provided to the registrars?

Six (6) days after the end of each month, the number of excessive deletes will be calculated. Once the excess deletions are computed and the charges applied to the calculated excess deletions, the registrar accounts will be billed and an email notification will be sent with computations documenting how the excess deletion charge was determined. The email notification will show the computation supporting the amount billed to the registrar's account.

What will be the impact to the existing reports and invoices?

The monthly invoice (Invoice.pdf) will reflect the number of transactions that led to the Add Grace Period Policy. The monthly billing report (text.txt) will have a new row with deletions, Excessive AGP Delete Charge [ |nn|ffff.ff ] where "nn" is number of counted excess deletions in last billing cycle and "ffff.ff" is the total amount calculated for excess deletions in last billing cycle.

When will the Add Grace Period Limits Policy be implemented?

The Add Grace Period Limits Policy is effective 00:00 UTC on 01 May 2009.