Re: [ga] WHOIS accuracy, and name deletions

[eric@hi-tek.com]

George, and/or others, is there any law anywhere that creates a liability
upon an ISP for losing a name for a client?
(I of course speak directly of dotCOM because of course there are for
ccTLDs)
We certainly do not rely upon notification from a registry to tell us
anything regarding an expiry.
In professional offices I believe they are still called ticklers - self
notification of due dates.
Does one say "oops I forgot to pay my mortgage and now I am being
foreclosed"? "Oops I did not know I had to pay taxes each year"?

With that said there is some down right theft going on here which sucks.
Also do not confuse Whois data bases and theft of privacy with loss or
theft of names.

Eric

George Kirikos wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Folks might not be aware of discussions going on in the WHOIS accuracy
> task force of the DNSO/GNSO. See:
>
> http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/nc-whois/Arc00/msg00806.html
>
> for instance.
>
> Am I the only one who is concerned that a legitimately held name might
> be deleted due to a simple failure to respond within 15 days? Given the
> amount of spam out there (it's easy to accidentally skip over an email,
> thinking it was spam), and lack of guaranteed delivery of email, I
> think that this is a very dangerous and poorly thought-out proposal for
> legitimate domain holders, especially those with small staffs (or
> self-employed). I am all for WHOIS accuracy (it helps to promote
> responsible internet usage, and reduce abuse behaviour), but there
> needs to be some balance in that proposal. If someone goes on holidays
> for 3 weeks, or misses an email, conceivably they could find all their
> valuable domains are no longer held by them!
>
> I would hope that OpenSRS and other leading registrars would implement
> a "white-list" (where domain WHOIS is permanently marked as "accurate",
> or if not permanent than for long intervals of months, not days) of
> protected names, or other mechanisms to ensure that legitimate and
> correct domains are not hijacked through misuse of this policy, and
> that domains are protected. "Rogue" domain holders, with obviously fake
> WHOIS should be pursued, but legitimate holders should be protected.
>
> If AT&T, AOL, Google or another elite company moves its offices, and
> happens to not update their WHOIS records for a few weeks, should they
> lose *all* of their domains? Obviously not...they have the lawyers (and
> trademarks) to ensure that they'd get back any domain name that their
> registrar deletes, but smaller companies do not!
>
> Every summer, a lot of people move to new homes or apartments -- should
> they all be rushing to change their WHOIS the exact moment they move,
> or fear losing all their domain names?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> George Kirikos
> http://www.kirikos.com/
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