Re: [ga] Stolen domains, transfers, WHOIS, audit trails, and system integrity

[Vittorio Bertola <vb@bertola.eu.org>]

On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 02:23:03 -0500, you wrote:

>While I completely agree with your statement, wouldn't the losing
>registrar have a backup of their database?  This should be enough to
>show they had ownership of the domain?  Perhaps ICANN should include
>provisions in their registrar agreement for database backups?  There
>are standards of backup required for data to be admitted as evidence
>in court, ICANN can hold registrars to the same level?

Perhaps registrars should simply be required to keep escrowed copies
of backups made, say, every month. In this way you would have third
parties able to certify the ownership of a domain at a given date. I'm
not sure about costs, but I imagine they are quite reasonable.

More generally speaking, I think that there is a significant work of
revision of the RAA to be done to accommodate for this and other
issues. Of course no one wants to increase requirements for registrars
too much (otherwise the cost increase would end up on consumers) but
certainly there has to be more attention to this problem.
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