[92689] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [Fwd: Important ICANN Notice Regarding Your Domain Name(s)]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Wed Oct 4 19:04:57 2006
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 19:04:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
To: Chris Stone <cstone@axint.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <1159997883.10770.5.camel@cs.axint.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Chris Stone wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 14:27 -0700, Thomas Leavitt wrote:
> > Is this a GoDaddy specific thing? I've owned and/or managed an untold
> > number domain names since 1995 and never seen a notification of this
> > sort before (primary registrar to this date was Gandi.net, and before
> > that Network Solutions back in the bad old days).
>
> While, of course, the message is worded a bit different, we get the same
> thing for our domains registered under OpenSRS also every year.
ICANN *does* have a requirement for accurate information in WHOIS and
while I don't know how strongly the requirement is enforced, they *can*
pull your domain registration if you don't have accurate information.
That's the reason for those notifications.
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