Re: [ga] Domain Transfers

[Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>]

On 2001-12-13 18:07:55 -0500, John Berryhill wrote:

>>think hotmail.com

>Think VISA.

>Just how do you think Company A's customer paid for that domain 
>name?

Find some friend with a credit card, and arrange for the payment 
that way, for instance?  While credit cards may be entirely 
ubiquituous in the US, they are not in other parts of the world.

(Which is another reason to choose a local registrar who can be paid
through the domestic banking system.)

>I don't care whether the customer has a hotmail email address, a 
>Nevada corporation, a geocities website and a Swiss bank account. 
>Company A is the only clown at the circus who knows who bought the 
>popcorn.

Company A is the only one who may know who _paid_ for the domain.

>Very simple fix.  Do not allow a deletion or another registrar 
>transfer (yes, I've seen it done in more than one hop) within a 
>sufficient reasonable time after an initial registrar transfer for 
>the crows to come home to roost.

Note taken.

>But this particular exercise in "consensus building" has nothing 
>to do with protecting domain name registrars, and much more to do 
>with prying the cold dead fingers of NSI off of domain name 
>transfers.  The end result is going to be easier transfers and 
>more hi-jackings.  The agendas of the parties practically 
>determine that result, so there is no need to get worked up about 
>it.

Maybe you're right and this TF is an entire waste of time for anyone 
but registrar and registry representatives. But wouldn't it still be 
worth trying to get something reasonable out of it?

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Thomas Roessler                        http://log.does-not-exist.org/
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