Former Vice President of Corporate Communications at Verisign, Tom Galvin comments on the green light given to the proposed settlement by the ICANN Board.
In reaction to this report, www.DomainesInfo.fr was contacted by Tom Galvin, acting as spokesperson for Verisign, with an official comment.
Galvin is now a partner at 463 Communications but remains a consultant for Verisign. He previously held two key positions at the Dot Com registry: Vice President of Government Relations, where he was responsible for driving strategy and interactions with policy makers regarding homeland security, Internet security and telecommunications policy, and Vice President of Corporate Communications.
His tenure as VP of Government Relations in particular could help Verisign clear the final hurdle before the proposed settlement can be considered valid: approval by the US Department of Commerce.
"VeriSign is pleased at the ICANN Board’s approval and looks forward to working with the Department of Commerce towards final approval of the new .com registry agreement," Galvin wrote to www.DomainesInfo.fr in an email yesterday. The new .com registry agreement is straightforward and closely follows the .net registry agreement, with similar provisions on renewal and price controls, approved last year by the ICANN Board and Department of Commerce. VeriSign is committed to continuing to build and invest in the Internet infrastructure so it meets the growing needs of Internet users and operators. VeriSign hopes all members of the Internet community, including registrars, will join in ensuring the DNS continues to run reliably for the hundreds of millions of users who depend on it everyday."
Stiff opposition to the proposed settlement has already been voiced by the registrar community. www.DomainesInfo.fr was also contacted this morning by a representative of BulkRegister who gave us this comment made by Eric Rice, BulkRegister's general manager: "We implore Congress to reject the ICANN-VeriSign settlement outright. Domain prices for consumers should be going down, not up. An agreement on the .com registry should be motivated by what's right for the entire Industry, not a lawsuit and averting further litigation. VeriSign's lawsuit should not serve as a negotiating chip that it can use to pressure ICANN into deal. VeriSign is likely to net more than $3 billion from this agreement while consumers suffer higher domain prices without any justification from VeriSign for the increases. An additional affront is permitting VeriSign to automatically renew its management of the .com registry in 2012 without any review or an open competitive rebidding process -- something every other registrar must do -- which is anathema to a free market. This is a bad deal for consumers, and it is unfair to registrars."
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