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- -- John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:

>Anyone been following the Registerfly fiasco?  Since 2000, the ICANN
>registrar agreement has required registrars to escrow their registrant
>data according to ICANN's specs.  It's been seven years, ICANN is just
>now sending out an RFP to set up escrow providers, only because
>they've been shamed into it when people discovered that there were no
>backups of Registerfly's registrant data.

Yes, it is a pretty sad commentary on ICANN's ability to
follow through on policy.

>Even if ICANN should try to do this, registrars will push back like
>crazy since most of them have a minimum price mininum service business
>model.  In retrospect, it was a huge mistake to drop the price and let
>Verisign and their friends mass merchandise domains as a fashion
>accessory, but it's much too late to put that genie back in the
>bottle.


Well, that's a pretty sober commentary unto itself.

I ask you: What would you suggest? It's quite hard to craft
technical solutions to policy failures.

- - ferg

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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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