ICANN publishes Telcordia report on Dot NET reassignment
Telcordia has completed a period of extensive evaluation and ICANN has now received the evaluators' final report and rankings.
Telcordia has completed a period of extensive evaluation, including site visits by the Telcordia team to each applicant’s facilities, the completion of preliminary written reports, and follow-up questions to each applicant. A team of technical experts from Asia, Europe and North America provided technical advice to Telcordia concerning operational aspects of the DNS during this process. ICANN has now received the evaluators' final report and rankings.
Telcordia Report
The Telcordia report contains the results of the evaluation of the responses to the .NET reassignment RFP. The report consists of four sections: an executive summary of the findings, a description of the procedures that were used to evaluate the responses, the findings by RFP section, and the overall evaluation.
The Telcordia report noted the following: "The evaluators find that all the vendors have the capabilities to run the .NET registry". Telcordia concluded that the "distinguishing characteristics are largely difference in experience, risk and price". The final scoring result gave a slight advantage to VeriSign over Sentan, who were in order followed by Afilias, Denic and CORE++.
The full Telcordia report will be available on the ICANN website.
The Internet community is now invited to review the report. ICANN will promptly enter negotiations with the top-ranked applicant to reach a mutually acceptable registry agreement.