Two comments, if it's not too late. 1. Choice of law/jurisdiction is something to consider. Do you really want to purchase from an overseas registrar? ("overseas" being a relative term, wherever you are in the world.) Many registrars present themselves to the consumer in English, but are based in non-English speaking countries. This can be an issue for customer service. It's also an issue should you have to sue the registrar because most registrar contracts make the jurisdiction for suit the place where the registrar is located. I might use this to replace 8 ("What if choose not to re-register..."), which really has nothing to do with selecting a registrar. 2. As phrased, I think you do a disservice with #1 because resellers of accredited registrars are often places to get great personal service and prices. A lot of local ISPs, for example, are resellers of companies like Tucows and eNom and GoDaddy, but they don't have their own accreditation. So I might rephrase #1 to say something about looking for an ICANN accreditation *or a reseller of an ICANN- accredited registrar.* Hope that is helpful. -- Bret On Dec 18, 2007, at 12:19 PM, Brendler, Beau wrote:
Please note that Consumer Reports WebWatch will be publishing the attached document on its sites in the next few days. We worked with Dave Piscitello of the SSAC and with Nick, then Dave worked with Kieran of ICANN staff before sending the document to me. In turn, I edited it for content, but made few changes. It was Dave's idea to do this and I think the results are great.
You'll see it linked from
http://www.consumerwebwatch.org
http://blog.consumerwebwatch.org/
...towards the end of the week. If any of you want to duplicate it or use it on your own sites, WebWatch doesn't mind and I'm sure Dave won't either. Though he does pride himself on his writing so you should retain the credits.
We'll see what feedback we get and maybe we can get some wider distribution for it.
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