RE: [registrars] WLS - VOTING - Objection

[Rick Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>]

Tim,

you bring up several important points I'd like to address...

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Tim Ruiz wrote:

> Ross,
>
> Here are our comments in more detail.
>

[snip]

> We DON'T agree with the recommendation that the current registrant should be
> sent a notice about a WLS subscription being placed on their domain name. We
> don't understand the purpose of alarming them with this information after
> the fact. Registrars already have a vested interest in encouraging renewals.

I think the shareholders of any major corporation need to understand that
a major asset has a claim on it, such as AOL.COM or YAHOO.COM; If either
of these had a WLS on them their shareholders have a right to know with
this in mind we know better than recommending otherwise.

> And since there will be a redemption period of one sort or another to
> protect the registrant we don't see a need for this notice. With or without
> the WLS, if they let their registration lapse, someone is going to snap it
> up.

I'm not sure notice is the correct way either... but it will help us
figure out the bad registrant data, when contacts are sent notices.

> We DO agree that the fact that a WLS subscription has been placed on a name
> should be available upon request, either through a registrar request, or
> perhaps through the Whois in some manner.

yes, some publicly available method like whois would be good.

> We DON'T agree that the personal information of the WLS holder should be
> available. They are not the registrant of the domain name, at least not yet.
> There is enough unfortunate abuse of people's personal information without
> finding additional excuses for making it available.
>

again disclosure is important and more so than privacy -- after all it
might be a fraudulently registered WLS and we need to be able to identify
those as fraud before the WLS fires rather than after. Also with this
being a "market test" (on a production name space) public WLS registration
information would be in-line with the openness required of ICANN
organizations and assist in the research of the WLS market penetration.

best,

-rick