Danny and all my friends, It is clear that NSOL is, or was involved in Front Running seemingly to thwart Domain Name Tasting. However as we know, this was admitted on the GA list by a NSOL employee. However after some public exposier by several GA members expressing a strong desire for NSOL to discontnue this practice for obvious good reasons, NSOL subsequently for the time being, discontinued this errant and disgusting practice. It is our members hope that no registry or registrar will enguage in Domain Name Tasting/Front Running ever again, but recognize the financial incentive of such a practice to both, and vigilance by registrants and users/non-registrants to aid in ensuring that such bad practices are publically exposed and thusly act as a means by which such errant practices are curtailed. The success of course largly requires that ICANN itself police it's registrars and registries accordingly and diligantly. Regards, Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 277k members/stakeholders strong!) "Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" - Abraham Lincoln "Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt "If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B; liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by P: i.e., whether B is less than PL." United States v. Carroll Towing (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947] =============================================================== Updated 1/26/04 CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng. INEG. INC. ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com My Phone: 214-244-4827 Danny Younger wrote:
http://www.come4news.com/domain-names-the-saga-continue-249117.html
"This is actually chapter 3 in the domain name saga, the Domain registrars fight back and play dirty.
So the ICANN people got involved and forced my registrar (Network solutions) to unblock my domain name and make them ready for transfer.
So I was ready to finish the operation when an e-mail from "Network solutions arrived" and suddenly the price for renewal is not $ 34 a year but $ 15 a year. For me it was too late and I started the process, but before that I was required to modify my whois contact details. So I did it, got the confirmation and continued the process.
I got all the confirmations I needed, but then an e-mail from Network solutions arrived again saying that because I modifyed my contact details I cannot transfer the domain for 2 months now !!! 2 months ? that force me actually to renew the domain within Network solutions again. and... surprise, surprise 5 minutes later a mail from Network solutions arrived and says that I can renew my domain name for... $ 34 again."
Last September, ICANN put out an advisory entitled " Notice of Intent to Issue Advisory Regarding the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy" at http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-19sep07.htm
Public comments were received (all in favor of the advisory, except for one that came from Network Solutions), and then ICANN proceeded to do... nothing.
Obviously, the problem persists and still ICANN does nothing. Perhaps Staff can offer a suitable explanation as to why there has been no follow-through. For domain name registrants, these continuing abuses are just not acceptable.
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