Yes, .WHOSWHO and all new gTLDs are required by the terms of their Registry Agreements with ICANN to enter into Registry Registrar Agreement (RRA) only with registrars who have executed a 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) with ICANN. With that prerequisite out of the way, registrars must still enter into an RRA with Who’s Who Registry in order to register .WhosWho domain registrations for their clients/customers.
On a more encouraging note, for any of the hundreds of Registrars that are already doing business with any of the Registries for which Neustar is the back-end operator (including .biz, .co, .us, .nyc, etc.), there are no additional payments or paperwork required in order to activate .WHOSWHO billing and payment arrangements: they are extended on the same terms as your existing arrangements with Neustar, which makes the process simple and painless.
.The short answer is that, for Registrars who already do business with Neustar, your existing payment arrangements will cover any business you may do with Who’s Who Registry, and on the same terms.
If you’re post-paid with Neustar now, you’ll continue as such; if you’re pre-paid with Neustar, that continues with no additional deposit amount required.
There's also no need to pay any registrar accreditation fee to either Who's Who Registry or Neustar.
Neustar will be providing full registry services to .WhosWho, including technical support to Registrars, billing, etc. via their existing channels.
IN NEUSTAR'S OWN WORDS:
Registrars do not have to do anything different to be invoiced for .whoswho domain names.
The payment method that they have in place today will be applied to .whoswho as well.
When [Who's Who Registry] lets us know that [they] have accredited a registrar, we will set [the Registrar] up to connect to the .whowho environment and notify billing that the registrar will be registering .whoswho domain names.
First, you should expect the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) you signed to be countersigned and a copy returned to you, typically within two business days.
Next, some information will be required from you that Who's Who Registry will send along to Neustar to start the on-boarding process.
You are welcome to send it anytime after the signed RRA has been submitted, or wait for us to reach out to you.
The information that will be requested includes (fill-in the blanks):
- Please provide your registrar name and IANA ID below:
- Registry name:.WhosWho
- Registrar name:___________________________________
- Registrar IANA ID:__________
- Please provide contact info for the person responsible for on-boarding at your firm (often a technical person):
- Contact's name:______________________________
- Contact's email:___________@_______________
- Contact's phone: +____ _______________
Once the Registrar Accreditation Agreement has been countersigned, and this information sent by Who's Who Registry directly to Neustar with a request to on-board your Registrar, the Registrar's designated on-boarding contact will be contacted directly by Neustar for implementation purposes.
For those Registrars without an existng business relationship with Neustar, Neustar will request additional on-boarding information relating to billing and payment arrangements.
Who’s Who Registry is pleased to be participating in this exciting new era on the Internet through our offerings, at the domain level, of Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) in the .WHOSWHO namespace. At this time, we are pleased to offer domains not only in English/ASCII, but also in Chinese (both simplified and traditional characters), French, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian. The .WhosWho IDN tables that have been submitted to IANA for publication may be found at this location: http://www.iana.org/domains/idn-tables.
In addition, the following are RFCs (Requests for Comment) related to IDNs (Internationalized Domain Names) which Registrars may require in order to support IDNs at the second level as offered by .WhosWho, all of which are Compliant with the accompanying specifications:
- RFC 5890 - IDNs for Applications (IDNA): Definitions and Document Framework
- http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5890
- RFC 5891 - IDNs in Applications (IDNA): Protocol
- http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5891
- RFC 5892 - The Unicode Points and IDNs for Applications (IDNA)
- http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5892
- RFC 5893 - Right-to-left Scripts for IDNs for Applications (IDNA)
- http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5893
- ICANN IDNs Guidelines
- http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/implementation-guidelines.htm
Yes, all billing and settlement/payment for Who’s Who Registry are handled by Neustar, our Registry Services Provider, just as they are for other TLDs they own, manage and/or for which they provide such services as part of their back-end registry support
Assuming adequate credit worthiness, Neustar offers Registrars their choice of either a pre-paid or post-paid payment basis, with the proviso that each Registrar may have only one type of account (i.e. pre- or post-paid) with Neustar for all TLDs for which Neustar handles settlement/payment.
Registrars who would like a copy of our Registry-Registrar Agreement (RRA) may please request one either by email to info@domains.whoswho, phone us in New York at +1 212-877-8900, or skype us at wwgn-nyc. We work with Docusign.com for document management, and ask that you please be sure to include the name of the recipient and her/his email address in order to expedite your request.
This FAQ is for Registrars.
Registrars with questions not covered in this FAQ are invite to email Who's Who Registry at registry@whoswho.com,
phone us at +1 212-877-8900 (or 800-WHOSWHO (946-7946) toll-free in the USA, or skype us at wwgn-nyc.
Contact Info
Who's Who Registry
Box 300
New York, New York 10024 USA
Tel: +1 212-877-8900
info@domains.whoswho
Worldwide Outreach
Who's Who Online Ltd.
P.O. Box 800
New York, New York 10024 USA
Tel: +1 212-877-8900
USA toll-free: 800-WHOSWHO (946-7946)
Skype: wwgn-nyc
registry@whoswho.com
Abuse Contact
Who's Who Registry
Attention: ABUSE
Box 300
New York, New York 10024 USA
Tel: +1 212-877-8900
abuse@nic.whoswho
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