RE: [ga] Registrar domain deletion policies

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

I agree with you. Additionally, the registrar, being a re-seller for the
registry, does NOT own the license to the name. The registrant does. If the
registrant lets the domain lapse (as I have recently done with two of mine)
they should revert to the registry's pool for everyone to be able to access.
This gives an unfair edge to the registrars for expiring names.

But then, I think that the registrar system is seriously flawed anyway. This
is yet another flaw.

|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: William X Walsh [mailto:william@wxsoft.info]
|> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 2:06 PM
|> To: ga@dnso.org
|> Subject: [ga] Registrar domain deletion policies
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> I'd like to get some feedback here.
|> 
|> A registrar is currently testing a service where rather than outright
|> deleting domain names that are expiring without payment, they are
|> creating a premium service where, for a monthly fee, you can get
|> access to have these names transferred to you, without any 
|> interaction
|> or approval from the prior registrant, and in a way that totally
|> bypasses the normal deletion/drop process.
|> 
|> What would you feedback be on the creation of such a service.  It in
|> effect creates a monopoly, where domains registered at a registrar
|> must be reregistered with that registrar (though they can, after 60
|> days, be transferred to another registrar).
|> 
|> I'm very much opposed to this, on the grounds that I think the
|> registrant has rights which are being trampled by this, including an
|> assumption that their registrar will follow normally accepted
|> processes and not actually solicit someone to purchase their domain
|> name in such a direct fashion and outside the normal process.
|> 
|> I'd like your feedback though, and I'll forward it on to them, but I
|> also know they are on this list and reading it as well.
|> 
|> -- 
|> Best regards,
|> William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info>
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