Re: [registrars] DomainRegistry.com response to ICANN - Verisign

[Larry Erlich <erlich@domainregistry.com>]

Ross Wm. Rader wrote:
> 
> There are no ICANN policies concerning warehousing.

So you are saying that there never was a policy
adopted as detailed under 2ii. of the Registrar
accreditation agreement "prohibitions on warehousing
of or speculation in domain names by registrars" meaning
that CURRENTLY registrars are free to warehouse and
speculate in domain names?

Larry Erlich

http://www.DomainRegistry.com

> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-registrars@dnso.org [mailto:owner-registrars@dnso.org]On
> > Behalf Of Larry Erlich
> > Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 10:27 AM
> > To: Robert F. Connelly
> > Cc: registrars@dnso.org
> > Subject: Re: [registrars] DomainRegistry.com response to ICANN -
> > Verisign
> >
> >
> > A really good point. I hadn't really considered
> > that. I'm going to take a look at it from that angle.
> >
> > Larry Erlich
> >
> > http://www.DomainRegistry.com
> >
> >
> > Robert F. Connelly wrote:
> > >
> > > At 08:17 PM 3/31/01 -0500, Larry Erlich wrote:
> > > >A copy of our protest of the ICANN - Verisign
> > > >agreement is posted at:
> > > >
> > > >http://www.DomainRegistry.com/rejectcontract.html
> > >
> > > Dear Erlich:  Nicely done:-)
> > >
> > > I wonder about the following paragraph from page 3, just above
> > your section C:
> > >
> > > Allow me to also note that VeriSign's role in e-commerce, and
> > the domain name
> > >   registration business, is not limited to merely that of register and
> > > registrar. It also
> > >   owns and operates GreatDomains.com, a commercial reseller of
> > domain names,
> > >   handling (among other things) sales on VeriSign's behalf of
> > domain names
> > >   released by subscribers to its registrar business. VeriSign's
> > operation
> > > of its
> > >   reseller business is itself the subject of monopolistic-abuse
> > allegations
> > > relating to
> > >   its simultaneous role as a registrar. Finally, an examination of
> > > VeriSign's most
> > >   recent 10-K filing with the United States Securities and
> > Exchange Commission
> > >   (SEC) demonstrates that VeriSign's involvement in other
> > aspects of e-commerce
> > >   is both exceeding broad and exceedingly significant for the Internet
> > > community as
> > >   a whole.
> > >
> > > end quote:
> > >
> > > If this statement correctly describes the operations of GreatDomains, I
> > > would say they would violate the rules against warehousing by an ICANN
> > > Accredited Registrar, or any of its affiliates.
> > >
> > > Regards, BobC
> >
> > --
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> > Larry Erlich - DomainRegistry.com, Inc.
> > 215-244-6700 - FAX:215-244-6605 - Reply: erlich@DomainRegistry.com
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