RE: [registrars] Credit Card Proposal

["Michael D. Palage" <michael@palage.com>]

Bob,

The fraud prevent mechanisms vary far and wide, and I am not adopting any
specific mechanism. I am of the opinion that registries are not unsympatheic
to our situation.  However, I believe they want to make sure that registrars
are doing everything they can to minimize fraud as opposed to just asking
the registries to give them a credit.

This is why I call my proposal a middle of the road approach where both
parties meet somewhere in the middle. Obviously if the registries and
registrars choose to maintain entrenched positions then the status quo will
be preserved and the registrars will continue to bear the full burden of
credit card charge backs.

Mike



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registrars@dnso.org [mailto:owner-registrars@dnso.org]On
> Behalf Of Robert F. Connelly
> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 12:53 PM
> To: Registrar Constituency
> Subject: Re: [registrars] Credit Card Proposal
>
>
> At 12:38 PM 2/24/03 -0500, Michael D. Palage wrote:
> >  An additional requirement for the registrar to obtain this
> refund would
> > be the demonstration that the registrar employs a certain minimum level
> > of fraud prevention mechanism,
> >i.e. CVV2, address verification, etc.
>
> Dear Michael:  I had not heard that. On Wednesday, Rick mentioned
> "heuristics" as relates to the compatibility of telephone area code with
> address.
>
> Could you give more information on CVV2?
>
> Recently, some gasoline stations here in Henderson are asking for the zip
> code of the credit card.  I have to key in the zip code *number*.
>  Could be
> hard on our Canadian visitors to the States, their postal codes
> have alpha
> content;-{
>
> Regards, BobC
>
>
>