New ICANN registrant change process

Jay Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Mon Jul 4 19:03:53 UTC 2016


Seems to me that the proper thing to be done would have been for Registries to deauthorize registrars on the grounds of continuous streams of complaints.

On July 4, 2016 2:35:37 PM EDT, Mel Beckman <mel at beckman.org> wrote:
>I've worked behind the scenes for more than one of these outfits. I can
>tell you that domain registrars are basically printing money. On the
>other hand, I've also been the victim of domain hijacking. I can tell
>you that the domain registrars involved were less than useless in
>reversing the obviously fraudulent transactions. They basically said
>"Not our problem. Deal with it."
>
>That's on top of the other obviously unethical practices by registrars,
>such as seizing nonexistent domain names following a prospective
>buyer's whois search, sluggardly unlocking of domains, etc.
>
>Something had to be done. Now it has been.   
>
>To the registers whining about this change: 
>
>       Not my problem. Deal with it. 
>
> -mel beckman
>
>> On Jul 4, 2016, at 10:55 AM, Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I'll go ahead and assume I wasn't the last person to get this memo
>(courtesy
>> Lauren Weinstein's PRIVACY Digest):
>> 
>>
>https://opensrs.com/blog/2016/06/icanns-new-transfer-policy-will-impact-business-customers/
>> 
>> It does seem that this is going to make life difficult for a bunch of
>pretty
>> normal business processes.
>> 
>> If you didn't know about it either... ask yourself why not.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> -- jra
>> 
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