Sébastien Bachollet wrote:
Network Solutions' scheme is made possible by ICANN. ICANN allows companies that sell domain names to avoid paying registration fees for names cancelled within five days. Thus, Network Solutions can defraud customers at no cost to itself.
On one hand, I would love nothing better than to have ICANN found partially responsible for this mess by allowing the AGP to persist. If the risk of legal exposure causes ICANN to yank the AGP over the howls of registries and registrars, that suits me just fine. (I am aware that there may be certain benefits to the AGP; however they are massively outweighed by demonstrated misuse.) On the other hand, it does not speak well to ICANN's ongoing public consultation process if courts are proven able to accomplish what internal diplomacy can not. - Evan