ICANN, yesterday announced an open comment period on Public Interest Registry's excess delete fee proposal.

On 22 November 2006, ICANN's Board of Directors approved Resolution 06.84 to implement the Public Interest Registry's proposed new registry service to implement an excess delete fee on certain, excess, .ORG domain names deleted during the 5-day add-grace period by a 10-0 vote. Specifically the new service approved by the Board provides that PIR may charge a registrar an excess delete fee of 5 cents on every Domain Name deleted during the 5-day add-grace period when the number of deletions is in excess of 90% of the total number of initial Domain Registrations made by a registrar in a 30-day period.

The resolution authorized the President and General Counsel to enter into an amendment of the .ORG Registry Agreement with PIR to implement the approved service.