Registrar files rebuttal, moving toward Independent Review Process.

Namecheap has filed a rebuttal to ICANN’s board decision on its reconsideration request over the new .org contract. It is also filing for Independent Review, starting with the voluntary Cooperative Engagement Process (CEP).

The registrar is challenging ICANN’s staff deciding to remove price caps from .org domain names.

In the rebuttal (pdf), Namecheap summarizes its argument that is bolstered by the proposed agreement by Public Interest Registry to sell to a for-profit private equity company.