On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names

Tue Apr 3 06:45:36 UTC 2007

On Tue, Apr 03, 2007, Tony Finch wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, David Conrad wrote:
> >
> > Even if a delay were imposed, I'm not sure I see how this would actually help
> > as I would assume it would require folks to actually look at the list of newly
> > created domains and discriminate between the ones that were created for good
> > and the ones created for ill.  How would one do this?
> 
> A good start would be to forbid the delegation of newly-registered
> domains that have not yet been paid for.

Define paid for. Paid for == bank said yes, or Paid for == bank said yes and then
said "Whoa no; thats not really right."

(I truely wonder what the domain registrars are seeing as CC transaction failure
rates, and why the banks haven't stepped in.)

Adrian