[registrars] Fw: [ga] A Case Study of Domain Reregistrations - 4525 distinct domains that yield "Tina's Free Live Webcam"

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

Ben's report has policy implications for Transfers, WLS in addition to the
areas that he outlines below in the second paragraph. It is certainly nice
to be dealing with hard data for once.

-rwr

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Edelman" <edelman@law.harvard.edu>
To: <ga@dnso.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 1:10 AM
Subject: [ga] A Case Study of Domain Reregistrations - 4525 distinct domains
that yield "Tina's Free Live Webcam"


> Thanks to all who contributed suggestions and feedback in response to my
> inquiry over the weekend re domain reregistrations.
>
> Given the apparent timeliness of the topic, especially for its
relationship
> with the Redemption Grace Period Technical Steering Group
> (<http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-04apr02.htm>) and with
> various allegations of confusing mailings to registrants (mailings which
no
> doubt make it harder to promptly and correctly pay the *actual* bill!), I
> thought I'd go ahead with making available my research findings on a
> somewhat faster schedule than I had previously anticipated.
>
> My work to date has focused on a single case study -- the "Tina's Free
Live
> Webcam" site I personally stumbled into earlier this month.  I have
> documented a total of 4525 distinct domains that redirect to this site,
and
> I've assembled extensive information about each (thanks to Google, Yahoo,
> and archive.org) to help inform an inference that many of these domains
(if
> not most or even all) were previously used by other registrants.
>
> The inference of reregistration is imperfect and in some cases uncertain,
so
> I want to encourage readers to take a look through the list on their own.
> To that end, I have posted the entire listing of specific domains that
point
> to Tina's Webcam as well as the dossier of additional information about
> each.  This turns out to be quite an entertaining read -- for Tina has
come
> to hold domains previously used not just by a bicycle store but also by a
> BBB, a French school, several bands, many personal home pages, and all
> manner of software companies, ISPs, retailers, and other commercial
> interests.
>
> My complete listing & analysis are available at:
>    <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/edelman/renewals/?ga>
>
>
> I'll be interested to hear from those on the list re critiques, helpful
> focus areas going forward, possible improvements to methodology and, I
still
> hope, more examples of other domains with similar phenomenon.  (I'll
> continue to review and process submissions from
> <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/edelman/renewals/submit/?ga>.)
>
>
>
>
> Ben Edelman
> Berkman Center for Internet & Society
> Harvard Law School
> <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/edelman>
>
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