Re: [registrars] RE: Whois expiration dates

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

While we are on the subject of poor data integrity, can you provide an
indication of when Verisign will be correcting the thousands of invalid
email addresses in your whois that continue to show
no.valid.email@worldnic.com?

This question has been raised before, both publicly and privately and I
don't believe that an answer has been forthcoming (although I may have
missed something). As Verisign continues to demonstrate a willingness to
abide by its obligations to ICANN and the registries under its various
contracts, I expect that this data issue will be resolved in an expeditious
manner as well.

Thanks,

-rwr

----- Original Message -----
From: "Beckwith, Bruce" <bbeckwith@verisign.com>
To: "'Mike Lampson'" <lampson@iaregistry.com>
Cc: <registrars@dnso.org>
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 9:38 AM
Subject: [registrars] RE: Whois expiration dates


> Mike,
>
> Thanks for bringing this issue to my attention.
>
> As I remember being told many times in school, if you have a question, you
> can be sure others do also - so given this, I would assume that other
> registrars may have similar questions, so I am taking the liberty of
posting
> my reply to you also to the Registrar Constituency mailing list (though
I've
> deleted your and Delores' phone numbers, as well as her email address, and
> your customers identifiable information).
>
> As you will see from the note I posted to the GA mailing list
> (http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga-full/Arc09/msg02098.html), we have
> recently been made aware of a data problem with a few domains that were
> registered approximately two years ago.  That issue is on the development
> queue to be resolved in the near term.  Though I do not know the extent of
> the problem, our initial review shows that it is limited to less than 20
> domains.
>
> I can't speak to why other registrars do not show expiration dates or have
> available whois functions, all of which are required by the ICANN
contracts.
> I can tell you that the VeriSign Registrar abides by the contracts, and
when
> data issues are identified, as has been the case in this situation, we
work
> at getting them resolved in an expeditious manner.  Should you be aware of
> any domains that have any issues, please let me know.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bruce
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Lampson [mailto:lampson@iaregistry.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 2:16 PM
> To: Beckwith Bruce
> Cc: David Wascher, Delores Jordan
> Subject: Whois expiration dates
>
>
> Bruce,
>
> I want to give you an opportunity to explain the attached statement from
one
> of your fellow VeriSign employees.  The attached was sent to one of our
> customers.  If Delores made this statement in error, please let us know.
> Otherwise I must bring issue up with the rest of the Registrars
> Constituency.
>
> I believe that the Registrars Accreditation Agreement from November 1999
is
> still in force for all .COM/.NET/.ORG registrations.
>
> http://www.icann.org/nsi/icann-raa-04nov99.htm#IIF
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike Lampson
> The Registry at Info Avenue, LLC
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> From: "Jordan, Delores"
> To: Info Avenue Customer <real name deleted - BWB>
> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 1:24 PM
> Subject: RE: Re : Domains (#number deleted -BWB)
>
> The expiration date that we show in our database is not required by ICANN.
> This information is for historical information and to help our customers
to
> know when their domain name is up for renewal.  As you have stated, other
> registrars do not have this information we provide this as a courtesy.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Delores (Jordan) Travis
>