Registration Operations Workshop (ROW)

ROW14 CALL FOR SPEAKERS
NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS!

• Block your agendas for ROW14: September 30th, 2025, 13:00-17:00 UTC, online

• Submit your panel & presentations proposals! Deadline August 15th!

• Register NOW to secure your spot and get the latest updates!

ABOUT ROW14

The 14th ROW will be held via remote participation on September 30th, 2025, 13:00 - 17:00 UTC  (check local time zone here). You may already register to attend the conference and stay informed of latest updates.

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.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The call for presentation and 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 also 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 & PAST ROW EVENTS

The 13th ROW took place remotely on June 4th, 2024. To view the agenda, speakers, session recording, presentations, transcript, chat, and Q&A pods, click here. To explore archived data from ROW events dating back to 2014, please visit the Events tab.

SPONSORSHIP

This event is sponsored by ICANN, 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://lists.icann.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/latest 

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

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

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