ICANN requirement for "information refreshing"?

Tue Jun 18 23:25:11 UTC 2002

At 07:09 PM 6/18/2002 -0400, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote:

>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.

(from ICANN Registrar Accreditation Agreement - 
http://www.icann.org/registrars/ra-agreement-17may01.htm):

3.4.1 During the Term of this Agreement, Registrar shall maintain its own 
electronic database, as updated from time to time, containing data for each 
active Registered Name sponsored by it within each TLD for which it is 
accredited. The data for each such registration shall include the elements 
listed in Subsections 3.3.1.1 through 3.3.1.8; the name and (where 
available) postal address, e-mail address, voice telephone number, and fax 
number of the billing contact; and any other Registry Data that Registrar 
has submitted to the Registry Operator or placed in the Registry Database 
under Subsection 3.2.

I guess you could consider that email as an attempt to "maintain" their 
database. That being said, the email I received contains a link which sends 
me to their homepage. Not very helpful if you're clueless about such matters.

-- jb