RE: [registrars] Draft Letter

["Michael D. Palage" <michael@palage.com>]

Dan:

Hijacking is clearly an illegal activity that the FBI has investigated, and
one of the reasons that we had the meeting with them last year and a
follow-up just a couple a months ago. That is NOT an issue, and seems to be
a further attempt to cloud the basic issue before us.

Keeping with ICANN open and transparent mandate will you please disclose the
identity of the other registrar that has reported "slamming", so that it can
be properly documented in the letter. I believe that the Registrar
Constituency and the greater ICANN community has a right to this knowledge.

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registrars@dnso.org [mailto:owner-registrars@dnso.org]On
> Behalf Of Dan Halloran
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 8:28 PM
> To: registrars@dnso.org
> Subject: RE: [registrars] Draft Letter
>
>
> Thank you all for your continuing efforts toward a resolution of this
> transfer verification issue.  I'm sorry I missed the conference early
> yesterday; it was my first day back at work from a one-week vacation.
>
> I've read Roger Cochetti's letter and the draft response
> circulated by Mike
> Palage.  I'm glad to see that new proposals about registrar transfers have
> been put forward, and that many in the Registrar Constituency are
> trying to
> grapple with these difficult problems.
>
> I would like however to clarify one point in Mike's draft.  My
> statement in
> Stockholm that I "was not aware of any complaints that ICANN had received
> about domain name slamming" referred only to my own knowledge, and to
> complaints by losing registrars.  In fact ICANN has received reports of
> unauthorized transfers (usually associated with domain
> "hijacking.")  Also,
> after checking around the office, I have learned that at least one other
> registrar has raised concerns about transfers deceptively initiated by
> resellers or registrars without the registrant's informed consent.
>
> Best regards,
> Dan Halloran
> Chief Registrar Liaison
> ICANN
> halloran@icann.org
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registrars@dnso.org [mailto:owner-registrars@dnso.org]On
> Behalf Of Michael D. Palage
> Sent: 24 July, 2001 1:32 AM
> To: registrars@dnso.org
> Subject: [registrars] Draft Letter
> Importance: High
>
>
> Attached please find the proposed letter to Stuart drafted in accordance
> with the discussion during yesterday's teleconference and which the
> Constituency proposes sending to ICANN. I believe that the letter achieves
> the objectives stated in our teleconference yesterday. Please provide any
> comments to the letter during the next 24 hours so that I can submit it to
> ICANN ASAP. This letter is important to the ongoing consensus building
> efforts that the Constituency has undertaken and I urge all
> member to review
> this letter closely.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Michael D. Palage
>
>