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On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
> It's 'perpetuated' by the e-mails my customers receive that say "We've
> received this request to transfer your domain away from Tucows. Unless we
> here from you, we're going to do it". They don't like that. It doesn't make
> them feel safe. Even when they DID mean to transfer it, they don't like it.
> "What if I was sick for a while, or on vacation" is the usual response.
If they were sick or on vacation, they never would have gotten the e-mail
from Tucows in the first place. The entire system is based on trust of
registrars and registries not being bad guys. If you don't believe that,
then you shouldn't be registering domains in the first place, because all
hope is lost. If you DO believe that, then there should be no way a
request would ever get to Tucows in the first place unless it had already
been authenticated by the registrant to the gaining registrar. Did you
and everyone else who panics about this miss that part of the new policy?
Because it sure seems like it.
If a gaining registrar initiates a request that was not authenticated by
the registrant, they are subject to penalties from ICANN, and should be
reported. But I've never seen that happen, and I'd be surprised if many
others have. Just because a customer is stupid and fills out the "renewal
notice" and returns it to DROA and then gets upset and says they didn't
initiate the transfer doesn't make it true. What it does mean is that the
customer is stupid. But DROA plays by the rules.
The Panix case seems to be something different altogether. But we really
have no clue. As Ross said, we don't have the facts of the case yet, so
speculating about it is pointless. And going crazy about the transfer
policy because of it is simply absurd.
Tim Wilde
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Tim Wilde
twilde@dyndns.org
Systems Administrator
Dynamic Network Services, Inc.
http://www.dyndns.org/
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