I think your subject says it all.
How do you justify selling something that's not yours in the first
place?
Just trying to understand the mindset - as this is not something that
would occur to me to do in the first place.
-Tim
-- myOstrich Internet http://www.myostrich.net> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-discuss-list@opensrs.org > [mailto:owner-discuss-list@opensrs.org] On Behalf Of Paul Chvostek > Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 12:15 AM > To: discuss-list@opensrs.org > Subject: selling things that aren't yours... > > > > Hiya. > > We have a number of domains that are still well off from > their registry expiry dates which refer to our DNS servers at > the registry and have email addresses within domains managed > here. These are domains for which hosting contracts have > expired and the customers have gone AWOL. The admin email > addresses are obviously invalid, and in many cases the > telephone numbers are not in service. We haven't gone to the > extent of sending paper reminders to the addresses listed in > the domains' WHOIS records, but I suspect many of them are no > longer valid as well. We point the web pages for these > domains to a numbered virtualhost that tells people to > contact our billing department if they are the owner of the > domain and would like to set up hosting with us. > > On occasion, we get queries from parties interested in > purchasing these domains. Our traditional response has been > to tell these parties that the domains are simply unavailable > until they eventually expire. But if the "real" owner is > nowhere to be found, by either email or phone, is there a > point where we can consider the domain to be "abandonned", > and facilitate its transfer to a new owner prior to its > registry-listed expiry date? > > I'm thinking this is analagous to marine "right of salvage". > What's a reasonable amount of time a domain should be left > unattended and in violation of ICANN guidelines regarding > WHOIS data validity before it can be considered up for grabs? > If anyone has experience with this sort of situation, or > pointers to relevant official documentation on the matter, > I'd love to hear about it. > > p > > -- > Paul Chvostek > <paul@it.ca> > Operations / Development / Abuse / Whatever vox: +1 > 416 598-0000 > it.canada > http://www.it.ca/ > >
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