ICANN requirement for "information refreshing"?

Tue Jun 18 23:09:15 UTC 2002

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?