Re: [ga] Verisign spamming domain name registrants??

[Rick Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>]

Leah,

organize a protest in Montreal, have real persons picket, if you can just
get .0001 of the Internet population to show up in force at a free meeting
in Canada I'm sure it would turn some heads and maybe change some minds.

-rick


On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, L. Gallegos wrote:

>
>
> On 4 Jun 2003 at 11:39, George Kirikos wrote:
>
> > It'd be as "personalized" (i.e. unique and targeted) as any of the
> > phony renewals notices, I imagine.
> >
> > Would it be ok for others, following this precedent, to do as Verisign
> > does, with their own "informational messages"?
> >
>
> Define "informational messages."  If it means administrative notices, that should
> come from the registrar of record for the domain, not the registry.  I am not the
> customer of the registry unless it is a "thick" model.
>
> If a message is issued by the registrar with whom you have the domain, it would be
> not only acceptable, but, IMO, expected.  However, coming from the parent registry
> with whom you do "not" have a customer/vendor relationship, it is spam.  Even if the
> registry (assuming a "thin" model) is instituting changes in policy, it should reach
> registrants via the sponsoring registrar.  In the case of a "thick" model, where the
> registrant also has a relationship with the registry itself, administrative messages
> might be expected from both registrar and registry.
>
> My domains are registered with a registrar other than NSI and I delete messages
> from NSI and/or Verisign.  I get Verisign spams all the time and simply filter them to
> dev/null.  Any message I receive from my registrar is opened immediately as long as
> there are no attachments and no html.  My mail client is set to read text only and
> attachments are stripped or quarantined by my firewall.
>
> There are many negative issues with WLS.  I have a sick feeling that it's going to
> backfire badly and do substantial harm to registrants, along with the extortion
> exhibited with RGP.  The unprededented greed is geared to milk the public world
> wide until individuals revolt in some way.  How long before this happens?  I don't
> know, but we're all in for a rocky ride.
>
> Leah
>
>
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