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Proposed ICANN Changes to Make Domain Hijacking Easier
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:04:41 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Adam Fields <ip20398470293845 () aquick org> Date: November 11, 2004 10:59:30 AM EST To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Cc: Ip <ip () v2 listbox com> Subject: Re: [IP] Proposed ICANN Changes to Make Domain Hijacking Easier For IP, if you wish On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 10:48:15AM -0500, David Farber wrote:
What possible rationality is there is justify this policy?In the past, if you wanted to transfer your domain(s) away from a certain well-known registrar, the message from that registrar was often lost on its way to you. Since you did not reply to the message allegedly sent to you, your domain(s) could not be transferred to your preferred registrar, and you had to keep suffering the old registrar's poor customer service.
Admittedly, it's a problem if you can't transfer your domains away from a problem registrar. However, solving this problem by allowing all requested transfers to go through by default is NOT the right solution, and it will likely make more problems than it fixes. We know the spammers harvest whois. What's to prevent them from sending out valid-sounding transfer requests for every domain and picking up the ones where the owner isn't paying attention or doesn't understand the changes? Is it realistic to believe that this problem could not be solved in a way that addressed problem registrars instead of opening up legitimate domain holders to vulnerability? How about doing transfer request authorization by some method that's a bit more reliable than email? Legal notices are often delivered by certified mail or some other verifiable method - how did we get stuck on assuming that email alone was okay and building the solution around that? -- - Adam ----- [ http://www.aquick.org/blog ] [ http://www.adamfields.com ][ http://del.icio.us/fields ] [ http://www.aquick.org/photoblog ][ http://www.aquick.org/gallery ] ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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