[92697] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [Fwd: Important ICANN Notice Regarding Your Domain Name(s)]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Thu Oct 5 08:14:11 2006
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0610041903190.25132-100000@amethyst.justthe.net>
Cc: Chris Stone <cstone@axint.net>, nanog@nanog.org
From: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 08:13:06 -0400
To: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 4-Oct-2006, at 19:04, Steve Sobol wrote:
> 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.
While I'm not familiar with the precise enforcement mechanisms or
policy, I do know of one ISP who had the delegation for their (.com)
domain name unexpectedly pulled by the registry in response to a
complaint about inaccurate whois information directed at ICANN.
It was painful for the ISP, especially since it happened during the
time that Verisign's sitefinder was live, which caused e-mail to ISP
customers to be hard bounced from Verisign and people looking for
their web page to be presented with a "this domain is not registered"
page instead of a browser error.
It's well worth avoiding, even without the additional sitefinder
complications :-)
Joe
