[48857] in North American Network Operators' Group
ICANN requirement for "information refreshing"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Howard C. Berkowitz)
Tue Jun 18 19:11:55 2002
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 19:09:15 -0400
From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@gettcomm.com>
To: nanog@merit.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I just received an email from Verisign customer service requesting I
"refresh my information:" on an active domain that doesn't expire
until 2004. My concern is that the request specifically stated ICANN
required them to do this.
On searching the ICANN-Verisign contract at the ICANN site, I could
find no requirement for refreshing. I'm concerned this may be a
covert marketing activity, since the web page for "refreshing" very
easily could have led me into buying services from Verisign. This
seems to be of operational interest to service providers hosting
domains, if Verisign/Netsol can confuse people into shifting their
service to them.
Am I completely off base here? Is there some ICANN requirement I've missed?
