RE: [registrars] FYI - Fraud Update

[Rick Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>]

Alice's Registry, Inc offers a stronger service to prevent on-line fraud
and would very much like to present our offering in the context of
preventing on-line fraud in domain registrations.

thanks,

-rick

 On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Elana Broitman wrote:

> Thanks for pointing this out Mike. It seems to be a registry or corporate service of VeriSign's.  Therefore, I'm asking Chuck Gomes about this.  If it is a new registry service, it may be interesting to include in the Whois workshop as one of the potential solutions in a future more private Whois, such as a tiered Whois solution?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael D. Palage [mailto:michael@palage.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 12:37 PM
> To: registrars@dnso.org
> Subject: [registrars] FYI - Fraud Update
>
>
> Hello All:
>
> I read this interesting article
> (http://news.com.com/2100-1011_3-1018711.html) today about a new Fraud
> Protection Service VeriSign is offering to combat online fraud in which
> credit card numbers, the names of cardholders, and the Net address of buyers
> are compared to spot frauds. I applaud this and other related service as I
> believe combating online fraud is critical to the future health of
> ecommerce, a common goal I am sure we all share.
>
> It is on a similar basis that I believe there is a need for law enforcement
> and intellectual property owners to have access to Whois information to
> combat cybersquatting and other online fraud. I was wondering if Brian Cute
> would be able elaborate on the features of this new service if he has any
> knowledge of it. I would be particularly interested to know if there are any
> potential EU data privacy concerns raised by this service that would be
> helpful in resolving the Whois problems.
>
> I would also be interested to hear if credit card fraud continued to be a
> growing problem for registrars. I have heard from a number of registrars
> that have implemented the CVV2 that it has helped minimize credit card
> charge backs. Credit card fraud is a topic that I always like to take the
> periodic pulse of the constituency on.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
>

-rick

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