Registration Operations Workshop (ROW)

ROW highlights

• Block your agendas: ROW14 on September 30th, 2025 via Zoom!

• Submit your proposals for ROW14; deadline August 15th, 2025!

• Consider sponsoring the ROW? Check out our Sponsorship Opportunities!

ABOUT ROW

The Registration Operations Workshop (ROW) is an informal industry conference that offers a platform for discussing the technical intricacies of registration operations within the domain name system. Past sessions have included presentations and panel discussions focused on Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP), WHOIS, Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI), Registry Lock, Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) and many more (see details here). 

The Registration Operations Workshop is open to all industry members including address/gTLD/ccTLD registries, domain name registrars, resellers, and second level domain registries.

ROW14

The 14th ROW will be held via remote participation on September 30th, 2025.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The call for presentation or panel proposals is NOW OPEN. Please submit a short abstract describing your proposal to [email protected], by August 15th, 2025. 

SUGGESTED TOPICS

The Program Committee invites submissions aligned with this non-exhaustive list of broad topics:

• Operational impacts of provisioning protocol migration
• Examples of how AI is being used in the registration ecosystem
• RDAP implementation experience
• Implementation of NIS2 Directive
• Best practices for DNSSEC Key management
• DNS abuse (Global Signal Exchange, etc.)
• Topics relevant to EPP, RPKI & other protocols relevant to Registration Systems (Domain Connect protocol, etc.)
• Digital Identity topics (eIDAS, etc.)

We welcome any discussions or suggestions for additional topics on ROW’s mailing list: [email protected]

IMPORTANT DATES

• Call for Speakers Opens: April 3rd, 2025
• Registration Opens: May 27th, 2025
• Call for Speakers Closes: August 15th, 2025
• Acceptance Notifications: August 21st, 2025
• Confirmations of Acceptance Due: August 28th, 2025
• Agenda Publication: September 2nd, 2025
• Presentations Due: September 23rd, 2025
• Conference Event Date: September 30th, 2025

ROW13

The 13th ROW was held via remote participation on June 4th, 2024 13:00 – 17:00 UTC. Session recording, presentations, transcript, chat, and Q&A pods are available here.

SPONSORSHIP

This event is sponsored by ICANN and Verisign and more recently CIRA, and organized by Cofomo. 

If your organization is interested in becoming a sponsor for the next workshop and joining the Program Committee, please contact us at: [email protected] 

Stay tuned for further updates! Connect with us!

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ROW discussion platforms

For ROW announcements and discussions, join:

• ROW mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/regiops/join
• https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/gtld-tech

For protocol-specific discussions, see IETF's Registration Protocols Extensions (regext) mailing list:

• https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/regext/ 

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