Re[2]: [ga] consensus

[William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info>]

Friday, Friday, December 14, 2001, 12:17:43 AM, L Gallegos wrote:



> Eric,

> The point I was trying to make is that one cannot state categorically that
> there are and will not not be errors in tranfsers that cause a domain to be
> lost to the registrant.  Therefore, there is a necessity to protect the
> registrant if it should occur.

It does occur. In the event of the hijacking related incidents I've
already related, the domains were returned to their original owners,
after the two registrars investigated what happened an made sure that
it was in fact a real case of a hijacking.  The registrars actually
seem to work well together on fixing these kinds of issues.

Nothing I can see indicates that it is even POSSIBLE to lose a domain in a
registrar transfer (and the person you had contact me off list was not
an example of a domain being lost during transfer, but was a result of
a registrar not processing domain transfer requests in a timely
fashion, causing the transfer to be denied by the losing registrar
when it was done past the expiration date, and the gaining registrar
refusing to refund the money (unlawfully in my opinion) and requiring
her to pay again to transfer the same domain).

But in the event something like this did in fact happen to occur (like
Hell froze over or something  :) I'm confident the registrars would
work to deal with it appropriately.  It is in their best interests to
do so, and they have shown a history of doing so in similar
situations.

I really think this is a red herring issue.

The Registrars are addressing important issues already that related to
this, such as data escrow, and procedures for dealing with the closure
of a registrar, etc.  The parts of the issue I've seen show that the
registrars are setting a higher standard for themselves than ICANN has
required, and I think that shows a real commitment by the registrars
to provide for registrant protection in areas like this.

-- 
Best regards,
William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info>
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