[ga] Re: WHOIS accuracy, and name deletions

["Derek J. Balling" <dredd@megacity.org>]

A couple other thoughts, from someone interested in this topic:

Hold after 15d. Delete 90d after held. If the domain isn't working for 
a month, and the domainholder hasn't contacted anyone to get it 
resolved, and is unreachable, I don't see a need to hang on to the 
domain much longer when others might actually be "responsible" 
landlords of the domain. :)

On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 09:03  AM, ezgoing wrote:

> 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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