On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 11:44:20AM -0400, Charles Daminato wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> You should maintain this policy
No problem, but if I can *add* to the policy something that will both
help to enforce ICANN policies and potentially gain us new customers,
it would seem like a good thing. ;)
> ICANN policy states that whois data must be valid for a registrant to retain
> ownership. However, the recourse is to report he anomaly (to us), or try to
> contact the registrant. If the whois information is not updated, the domain
> is forfeit and released to the pool for re-registration.
>
> At no time is it legal to forfeit the name and "sell/give" it to someone
> else.
So... No "right of salvage" in the domain name space. How do we go
about recommending/requesting release of a domain? Is there perhaps an
"official" process that ICANN wants followed for such things? Is it
documented somewhere?
For that matter, there doesn't seem to be a process to request release
of domains at all with OpenSRS; NetSol lets you "delete" a domain record
(and forfeit the remainder of the registration period) using their email
form, but I don't see it mentioned anywhere for OpenSRS.
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