[190441] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New ICANN registrant change process
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Mon Jul 4 15:04:02 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <8D804E82-D9EF-4FF6-A0EA-796F7AB76780@beckman.org>
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2016 15:03:53 -0400
To: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Seems to me that the proper thing to be done would have been for Registri=
es to deauthorize registrars on the grounds of continuous streams of comp=
laints.
On July 4, 2016 2:35:37 PM EDT, Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org> wrote:
>I've worked behind the scenes for more than one of these outfits. I can
>tell you that domain registrars are basically printing money. On the
>other hand, I've also been the victim of domain hijacking. I can tell
>you that the domain registrars involved were less than useless in
>reversing the obviously fraudulent transactions. They basically said
>"Not our problem. Deal with it."
>
>That's on top of the other obviously unethical practices by registrars,
>such as seizing nonexistent domain names following a prospective
>buyer's whois search, sluggardly unlocking of domains, etc.
>
>Something had to be done. Now it has been. =20
>
>To the registers whining about this change:=20
>
> Not my problem. Deal with it.=20
>
> -mel beckman
>
>> On Jul 4, 2016, at 10:55 AM, Jay R. Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
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>> I'll go ahead and assume I wasn't the last person to get this memo
>(courtesy
>> Lauren Weinstein's PRIVACY Digest):
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>>
>https://opensrs.com/blog/2016/06/icanns-new-transfer-policy-will-impact-=
business-customers/
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>> It does seem that this is going to make life difficult for a bunch of
>pretty
>> normal business processes.
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>> If you didn't know about it either... ask yourself why not.
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>> Cheers,
>> -- jra
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