RE: [registrars] Credit Card Problem

["Tom Chaffin" <tchaffin@stargateinc.com>]

We switched processors within the last week in order to accept the CVV2
requirement.  It appears to have made a significant difference.

I'm curious to know if fraud is still a major problem with registrars that
use CVV2.

Also, as registrars we don't need to necessarily share confidential
information,   just sharing IP's, countries or email addresses would help.

Tom



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-registrars@dnso.org [mailto:owner-registrars@dnso.org]On
Behalf Of Michael D. Palage
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 1:54 PM
To: registrars@dnso.org
Subject: RE: [registrars] Credit Card Problem


Sorry for the typo :-(

That is Joyce Lin not Lynn.

Still adjusting from jet lag.


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-registrars@dnso.org [mailto:owner-registrars@dnso.org]On
Behalf Of Michael D. Palage
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 2:21 PM
To: Joyce Lin; registrars@dnso.org
Subject: RE: [registrars] Credit Card Problem


Lynn:

The legal hairs on the back of my neck are standing up regarding the
confidential sharing of information. Hopefully we can get someone in to
discuss this problem in more detail and what we can and cannot do.

Mike



-----Original Message-----
From: Joyce Lin [mailto:joyce@007names.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 2:13 PM
To: Michael D. Palage; registrars@dnso.org
Subject: Re: [registrars] Credit Card Problem


All,

I have expressed concern about the credit card fraud issue a few weeks ago.
As I said that those abusers tend to go to the extreme, 10 years
registrations. I strongly believe the registry should refund us the
remaining whole years of registration fees when we delete the domain name
after a fraud is discovered.

To request a card code is one more step to reduce the fraud. I have
identified one of our abusers also owns some other domain names and I wish
we registrars could share that type of informations in a private manner.

Joyce


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael D. Palage" <michael@palage.com>
To: <registrars@dnso.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 1:35 PM
Subject: [registrars] Credit Card Problem


> As I have indicated to the list in the past credit card problem is a
growing
> problem within our industry, in fact I was surprise to hear on
> Register.com's Third Quarter 2002 Update Conference Call how bad the
problem
> is. http://biz.yahoo.com/cc/2/21512.html.
>
> I would really like to assemble a group of people to start looking at this
> problem. Moreover, if there is a mechanism to both reduce credit card
fraud
> and enhance the accuracy of the Whois data this could be a win-win
> situation.
>
> Let me know if anyone is interested.
>
> Mike
>
>