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

["Ross Wm. Rader" <ross@tucows.com>]

Correct.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Super-User [mailto:root@netscott.com]On Behalf Of Larry Erlich
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 11:04 AM
> To: ross@tucows.com
> Cc: Robert F. Connelly; registrars@dnso.org
> Subject: Re: [registrars] DomainRegistry.com response to ICANN -
> Verisign
> 
> 
> 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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