Re: New ICANN registrant change process

[Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>]

Seems to me that the proper thing to be done would have been for Registries to deauthorize registrars on the grounds of 
continuous streams of complaints.

On July 4, 2016 2:35:37 PM EDT, Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org> wrote:
> I've worked behind the scenes for more than one of these outfits. I can
> tell you that domain registrars are basically printing money. On the
> other hand, I've also been the victim of domain hijacking. I can tell
> you that the domain registrars involved were less than useless in
> reversing the obviously fraudulent transactions. They basically said
> "Not our problem. Deal with it."
>
> That's on top of the other obviously unethical practices by registrars,
> such as seizing nonexistent domain names following a prospective
> buyer's whois search, sluggardly unlocking of domains, etc.
>
> Something had to be done. Now it has been.   
>
> To the registers whining about this change: 
>
>       Not my problem. Deal with it. 
>
> -mel beckman
>
> > On Jul 4, 2016, at 10:55 AM, Jay R. Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote:
> >
> > I'll go ahead and assume I wasn't the last person to get this memo
> (courtesy
> > Lauren Weinstein's PRIVACY Digest):
> https://opensrs.com/blog/2016/06/icanns-new-transfer-policy-will-impact-business-customers/
> > It does seem that this is going to make life difficult for a bunch of
> pretty
> > normal business processes.
> >
> > If you didn't know about it either... ask yourself why not.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -- jra
> >
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