Re: [registrars] Credit Card Problem

[JP <jp@dotregistrar.com>]

All,

I agree on both accounts, we should get refunded on the unused deleted
years, and we should share the information on fraudulent use of credit
cards.
I do not se why the sharing of stolen credit card numbers and or bogus
e-mail addresses could be a privacy problem.
We should address this issue as soon as possible.

JP


> From: Paul Goldstone <paulg@domainit.com>
> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:47:56 -0400
> To: "Joyce Lin" <joyce@007names.com>
> Cc: "Michael D. Palage" <michael@palage.com>, <registrars@dnso.org>
> Subject: Re: [registrars] Credit Card Problem
> 
> Joyce,
> 
> I completely agree.  We come across our share of fraudulent registrants
> (mainly 10 year regs and certain countries) and more often than not, we
> trace them back to bogus records at other registrars too.  I've been hoping
> for a shared list of fraudulent users since the early days and expected it
> to come into play with the introduction of ICANN.  IOW, I'm all for it.
> 
> ~Paul
> 
> At 02:13 PM 9/25/2002 -0400, Joyce Lin wrote:
>> 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
>>> 
>>> 
>