Re: Long term registrations - Was: RE: [ga] Fwd: LACTLD comments on Zone Transfers

[eric@hi-tek.com]

You know this looks really good.
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Karl Auerbach wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Steven Heath wrote:
>
> > Now, Karl comments on a OTF of $25 and "particularly if updates were paid
> > for on a per-occurrence fee schedule.".
> >
> > My opinion is any fee that is based on the registrant, or their agent, being
> > charged to update details would result in lower quality of data compared to
> > the a fee based on unlimited changes being allowed. Lower quality is not a
> > good thing.
>
> If someone doesn't bother to update their list of DNS servers, eventually
> their domain becomes unusable, so there is more than a bit of
> self-interest in keeping things up to date.  (Not updating one's DNS
> delegation information is sort of like not putting oil into your airplane
> motor - yes, you can skip it, but eventually bad things happen.)
>
> As for whois data - I personally have yet to see what I believe to be a
> compelling argument why the generic "I" should be required to publish "my"
> personally identifiable information for the generic "your" convenience.
>
> If we assume the challange mechanism I posited in a previous message, if
> contact information is bad, and someone pays the registry to perform a
> challange operation, and no reply is received in response, then losing the
> registration is kind of a rather strong incentive for folks to make sure
> that the registry has up-to-date contact information.
>
> (Notice that in the challange mechanism that I propose, the name and
> contact information of the registrant is not made available to the
> challanger.)
>
>                 --karl--
>
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