[ga] Re: Transfers: Apparent Authority Discussion]]]]

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Loren and all assembly members,

Loren Stocker wrote:

> Hi William and all,
>
> I don't doubt that Verisign likes it to be difficult to transfer -- just look
> how AOL makes it all but impossible to drop.
>
> Yet, I split my real world experience with domains and the SMS/800. The
> SMS/800 is a two-party consent system that takes but 48 hour to transfer a
> number -- so it can be done! I think -- as Jeff just noted -- that we can have
> a fail-safe and effient transfers. This must be a two-party consent, there's
> just no other way. The motivation for fraud is too high to allow transfers to
> be done status quo.

  Yes a two party consent seems to be the best way in which this
can be accomplished with a very high degree of success.  However
one of those two parties MUST be the registrant, and the Registrant
must have the final say in the matter.  I would add that a standard
Domain Name Transfer system (SDNTS) with assigned PKI or
other encrypted Key system can be used here to accomplish this.

  I have never had any problem with changing my Netcom account
specifics using something very similar.  I also recently using a similar
system transferred stock from one Broker to another in a matter
of less than a day securely and pretty quickly.  So I and
many of our members, and obviously other Stakeholders
are of course not very understanding of the resistance
from some Registrars and Registries as to their consternation
and resistance to getting this issue handled fairly expediently.
Yet the ICANN BoD and most especially the ICANN staff
seems to be treating this amongst a host of other issues
as some sort of policy training exercise.  I personally
fine that irresponsible and grossly damaging, and have filed
a complaint with the DOC/NTIA accordingly...


>
>
> In the meantime, what I've do with Verisign is double-confirm transfers, as
> many e-mails seem to get lost. I'm batting over 95% with transfers now that I
> use this trick. And start early!

  Good trick!  The problem is that many new or even not so new
registrants do not know this trick, nor should they need or have too!

>
>
> Best, Loren
>
> William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info> wrote:
> Monday, May 27, 2002, 2:23:22 PM, Loren Stocker wrote:
>
> > But what you forget is that the Gaining registrar is a representative of
> the
> > registrant.
>
> You might have had a point, except for one thing.  Real world
> experience.
>
> The problem with your model is that the agency in charge of
> enforcement, the Registry, owns the registrar that suffers
> from the highest amount of outbound transfers, and has a vested
> interest in stemming that tide.  They use a flawed process to
> "authenticate" the outbound transfers, and have no motivation to fix
> it because all it would do is make losing customers easier for them.
>
> There is no danger to the Verisign owned registrars, because Daddy
> will protect them.
>
> This was one of the reasons why the original contact required Verisign
> to divest itself of the registrar, which ICANN (and most of the
> Registrars who supported it as well) let them get out of doing last
> year, with virtually NO additional protections in place.
>
> The facts are, in REAL WORLD EXPERIENCE, the method employed by NSI to
> verify outbound transfers has caused, and continues to cause on a
> DAILY basis, more REAL HARM to registrants, even on a financial level,
> than the the few instances of registrars implementing flawed gaining
> registrar authentication have caused.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info>
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