ICANN has opted against requiring certification for backend registry operators for the forthcoming first round of new gTLDs.
ICANN is hard at work on its new gTLD program. Staff are looking at various aspects of the program as they build towards the publication of an official Request for Proposal for new gTLDs, or at least a set of detailed guidelines as to the criteria potential applicants will have to meet.
One of the most important is obviously having a secure registry platform. As more and more new TLDs have come to market in recent years, their sponsors have often allied themselves with seasoned registry operators to guarantee a firm technical foundation for their suffix. It became the norm to call the entity handling the technical part of registry operations in this way a "backend registry operator".
An example is Afilias, the registry for .INFO, who also provides the technical registry infrastructure for several TLDs including .IN or .ASIA.
That the backend registry operator be solid and dependable is obviously of paramount importance to ensure that the TLD it is supporting does not fail. ICANN has therefore looked at certifying these backend registry operators.
But ICANN has just announced its decision not to go ahead with such certification, at least for the initial round of new gTLDs. "Both ccTLD and gTLD backend registry operators can still offer to provide registry services to new gTLDs," says ICANN. "The Request for Proposals for new gTLDs, when published, will detail the minimum technical criteria and pre-delegation check requirements that must be met by every applicant prior to the approval of their TLD for insertion into the root."
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