Re[2]: [ga-sys] Providing a "Nominee" Service

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

Hello Joanna,

Friday, June 29, 2001, 8:50:45 PM, Joanna Lane wrote:
> Add
> to that Danny's latest experience with babybows.com, and there is only one
> conclusion to reach. It's a mess out there.

Danny's experience had nothing to do with a domain registrar, but with
an ISP who had gone out of business, and another company purchased
their assets, but didn't want their customer base (which was probably
valued at a loss).

I agree that the uk domain system seems to be quite a mess.  You can't
even change registrars unless your existing registrar does the
transfer for you, very much unlike the existing process in
com/net/org.

By the way, for those who have been following this, the "Default Nak"
process that Register.com was using on outgoing transfers (Which
required registrants to affirmatively approve a transfer in a rather
confusing email or it would be denied) has been changed to a default
Ack process, much like the one Tucows uses now.

Tucows/OpenSRS sends a message to the registrant that lets them block
a transfer, or approve it early.  If they approve it early, then the
ACK is sent immediately, and this speeds up the transfer process.  If
they do nothing, the Ack is automatic after 5 days, and the transfer
goes through.  If they Nak it, the transfer is blocked.

This leaves 2 registrars with Default Nak policies, both owned by
Verisign, Network Solutions and Registrars.com.

-- 
Best regards,
William X Walsh <william@userfriendly.com>
Userfriendly.com Domains
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