RE: [ga] WHOIS accuracy, and name deletions

["Cade,Marilyn S - LGA" <mcade@att.com>]

David, you are a great resource to help us find out more about what ccTLDs do... in this area.  Do you know what Domainz does? Is there a way to find out what some of the larger ccTLDs do? Such as .de; .uk; .au; .fr; etc.? Perhaps there is learning which the gTLDs can take from the ccTLDs. Many ccTLDs have regisrtrations from other countries so have the postal delivery issues as well. 

I'd be happy to post any relevant and factual responses we might be able to get to the WHOIS TF list. 

Regards, Marilyn Cade

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From: DPF [mailto:david@farrar.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 2:47 PM
To: Vittorio Bertola
Cc: sri@domainmates.com; Cade,Marilyn S - LGA;
DNSO.Secretariat@dnso.org; discuss-list@opensrs.org; ga@dnso.org
Subject: Re: [ga] WHOIS accuracy, and name deletions


On Wed, 08 Jan 2003 12:15:40 +0100, Vittorio Bertola
<vb@bertola.eu.org> wrote:

>On Wed, 08 Jan 2003 22:19:59 +1300, you wrote:
>
>>If the registrant is a legitimate user, then once their domain stops
>>working they will eventually contact the registrar to get it fixed.
>
>The problem is that it might be too late - you might already be losing
>valuable e-mail messages or website traffic. So even before putting
>the domain on hold all efforts have to be made to contact the
>registrant and fix the problem (and let alone the fact that one has
>the right not to expose his/her identity to the whole world).

The issue of should you be allowed to be anonymous is a slightly
different debate.  For now the policy is you need correct data and the
issue is how to mitigate potential loss of a domain and purchase by
someone else (which is far worse).

I agree putting on hold is not without consequences and there should
be a minimum of three attempts to contact the registrant.  

DPF
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