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.

For example: For example, if a Registrar had in a month 1,000 net new registrations in the .aero Registry, for US$30,000 (based on a price of US$30 per domain name registration), and had 250 AGP deletes, the Registrar would be entitled to a refund of US$3000 for 100 AGP deletes (10% of 1,000 net new registrations at US$30 per domain name registration). The Registrar would not be entitled to an additional refund of US$4500 for the 150 "excess" deletes made during that month.

  • Net new registrations - 1000
  • Price for net new registrations - $30,000 (30*1000)
  • Number of AGP deletes - 250
  • 10% of net new registrations (allowed deletes within AGP for a full refund) - 100
  • Excessive deletes = 150 (250-100)
  • Allowed refund under the new AGP policy - $3000 (100*30)

Prior to this Policy, the Registrar would have received a full refund for all the names deleted during the AGP.