Frobbit! respond to open consultation on new model for .SE ccTLD

The .SE Registry hav had some proposals for considerations since Dec 2007 regarding a new registry/registrar model for .SE. It is a bit hard to find the proposal in English, but you can find them here on the .SE website. They are available in Swedish as well. Note that if you respond in English you have until Feb 13 to respond, while we that respond in Swedish had yesterday (Feb 4) as the last day. On the other hand, we swedish speaking people got the documents weeks before the english versions where released.

Frobbit! has responded to the proposals of course, and those of you that understand Swedish can read on the Frobbit! blog what Frobbit! think, and you can of course also see the full response here.

In short, the Frobbit! response include the following main points:

  • Keep the in Sweden used term Ombud for the english term Registrar.
  • One does not have to talk about Accredited Registrar, as a Registrar can only be Registrar if they have a signed agreement with .SE. Because of that, it is enough to say Registrar (or Ombud, see above). This might be specifically important as the term accredited have various formal meanings in Sweden.
  • .SE should not in the agreement define whether the Registrar can use a Reseller or not. It sounds like if some Registrars do not understand they have an agreement with .SE and because of that responsible to .SE for what happens – regardless of whether they deal with registrants directly or indirectly.
  • The agreement proposal itself is confusing. Many things where repeated, some other unnecessary, and because of that Frobbit! wrote a counter proposal.
  • The agreement must be reciprocal, which Frobbit! do not believe the proposal was. .SE had only three(!) things they had to promise to do, while the registrar had tons of requirements on them (such as responding to communication in time etc).
  • Frobbit! believe the release of domain names that are becoming available on the market should be released with a sunrise like process (but short, about an hour) instead of the race that is used today.