[registrars] Re: Register.com Whois Denial of Service

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

Elana,

It is our opinion that your firm is in violation of section 3.3.5 of the
RAA.

While your political aspirations and technical qualifications may indicate
otherwise,  this is very much an "ICANN issue" and therefore not something
that should be dealt with "offline" or otherwise swept under the carpet. You
may not feel qualified to deal with the issue, but I am and your denial of
service continues.

Register.com has continuously dealt with this, and related issues, in an
underhanded manner. These arbitrary actions have caused our firm and our
clientele significant and immeasurable losses.

While your firm may be comfortable with the "fuck-you" that this represents,
this is an arbitrary, capricious and unilateral action without precedent in
fact, operation or "best practice" in this industry.

As per our original request, we request that you immediately cease this
denial of service in accordance with section 3.3.5 of your RAA.

-rwr



Tucows Inc.
t. 416.538.5492
----- Original Message -----
From: "elana broitman" <ebroitman@register.com>
To: "Ross Wm. Rader" <ross@tucows.com>
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 6:56 PM
Subject: Re: Register.com Whois Denial of Service


> Ross - this is not an ICANN issue, so why don't we take it offline.
Neither
> of us are tech people, so if you want to give me a Tucows tech contact, I
> can put them in touch directly with our tech contact, so they can
straighten
> this out.
>
> Thanks, Elana
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ross Wm. Rader <ross@tucows.com>
> To: elana broitman <ebroitman@register.com>
> Cc: Dan Halloran <halloran@icann.org>; Louis Touton <touton@icann.org>;
> Brenda Lazare <blazare@tucows.com>; Elliot Noss <enoss@tucows.com>; Jack
> Kerins <jkerins@register.com>; <jlevy@register.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 5:55 PM
> Subject: Re: Register.com Whois Denial of Service
>
>
> > This is not a transfer specific issue. Nor do we specifically know which
> > systems you have blocked as these records would only be kept on your
> > systems.
> >
> > I would expect that Robert or Jordan would be much more helpful than I.
> >
> > -rwr
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "elana broitman" <ebroitman@register.com>
> > To: "Ross Wm. Rader" <ross@tucows.com>
> > Cc: "Dan Halloran" <halloran@icann.org>; "Louis Touton"
> <touton@icann.org>;
> > "Brenda Lazare" <blazare@tucows.com>; "Elliot Noss" <enoss@tucows.com>;
> > "Jack Kerins" <jkerins@register.com>; <jlevy@register.com>
> > Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 5:51 PM
> > Subject: Re: Register.com Whois Denial of Service
> >
> >
> > > Ross - We would be happy to help on this issue.  It would facilitate
our
> > > checking out the problem if you could send the IP addresses for the
> > problem
> > > transfers.
> > >
> > > Thanks, Elana
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Ross Wm. Rader <ross@tucows.com>
> > > To: Elana Broitman <ebroitman@register.com>
> > > Cc: <rforman@tucows.com>; <jlevy@register.com>; Jack Kerins
> > > <jkerins@register.com>; Elliot Noss <enoss@tucows.com>; Brenda Lazare
> > > <blazare@tucows.com>; Louis Touton <touton@icann.org>; Dan Halloran
> > > <halloran@icann.org>
> > > Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 5:20 PM
> > > Subject: Register.com Whois Denial of Service
> > >
> > >
> > > > Elana,
> > > >
> > > > It has come to our attention that your Whois system has been denying
> > query
> > > > access to a number of our network hosts. These hosts are responsible
> for
> > > > facilitating domain transfers, modifications, registrations and
other
> > > > administrative tasks on an automated basis. Section 3.3.5 of the RAA
> > > > specifically notes that these types of queries must be honored. Due
to
> > > this
> > > > denial of service, we are unable to complete even the most basic of
> > > > administrative requests when names that are under your sponsorship
are
> > > > involved.
> > > >
> > > > Please remove whatever controls you have in place that are
responsible
> > for
> > > > these blocks immediately.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance for your cooperation.
> > > >
> > > > -rwr
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
>