<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 November 2017 at 21:35, Viktor Dukhovni <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ietf-dane@dukhovni.org" target="_blank">ietf-dane@dukhovni.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Is there some sort of ICANN policy applicable to TLDs with multi-month<br>
DNS downtime?<br>
<span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote><div>For gTLDs, there's an SLA measured in (I think) hours per month for availability and minutes per month for validation, after which an Emergency Back-End Registry Operator (EBERO) procedure can be activated to move the TLD away from the offending registry. There is definitely no such restriction on ccTLDs (.su) and I'm a bit vague on how it applies to other special TLDs such as the ccIDNs you refer to. </div><div><br></div></div></div></div>