[ga] Re: WHOIS accuracy, and name deletions

["ezgoing" <ezgoing8@bellsouth.net>]

I agree that 15 days is not reasonable.

I believe that the policy of Verisign and other Registrars not releasing
expired domains is more of a problem than the Whois information not being
accurate.  Why hasn't anything ever been done about this problem?

It would be nice if it was accurate but it should require a registered
letter before the domain could be deleted.  Place it on hold after 15 days,
delete after three months if there is no response to a registered letter.

Ed

----- Original Message -----
From: "George Kirikos" <gkirikos@yahoo.com>
To: <discuss-list@opensrs.org>
Cc: <ga@dnso.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 4:15 AM
Subject: WHOIS accuracy, and name deletions


> 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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