RE: [registrars] Re: Credit Card Proposal

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

Lynn,

We must be very careful about how we share this information. There are legal
pitfalls (statutes) that I have been told about which I do not fully
appreciate just yet. Hopefully we could get the FTC to work with us in
combating fraud by collecting this information.

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joyce Lin [mailto:joyce@007names.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 4:11 PM
> To: Michael Brody; Michael D. Palage
> Cc: ross@tucows.com; 'Robert F. Connelly'; 'Registrar Constituency'
> Subject: Re: [registrars] Re: Credit Card Proposal
>
>
> We should have a web page where we registrars can login to post
> and view all
> the domain names registered with stolen cards and may be with the
> first and
> last four digits of the card being used.  Once we have the list,
> we will be
> alerted if the name shows up again for registration or transfer.  Good
> thinking, Rick.
>
> Joyce
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Brody" <mbrody@tldsystems.com>
> To: "Michael D. Palage" <michael@palage.com>
> Cc: <ross@tucows.com>; "'Robert F. Connelly'" <rconnell@psi-japan.com>;
> "'Registrar Constituency'" <registrars@dnso.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 3:47 PM
> Subject: [registrars] Re: Credit Card Proposal
>
>
> > I hate to muddy the issue here but there is an aspect of cc
> fraud that we
> > might be able to address within ourselves.
> >
> > The people who commit credit card frud have become more
> sophisticated.  We
> > have had instances where a domain was registered with a fradulent card.
> > Aproximately 45 days after the registration we get notice from
> the credit.
> > When we confirm that this is indeed a legitmate chargeback and
> not an end
> > user error we then attempt to place the domain on hold.
> >
> > At that time we find out that the domain has been transferred to another
> > registrar.  Calls to the 'gaining' registrar have been met with
> little to
> no
> > support.
> >
> > If we were to put a system in place to work together on issues such as
> these
> > we might be able to at least partially address the credit card fraud
> problem
> > for issues of this nature.
> >
> > Michael
> >
>