On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 1:41 PM, John R. Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
I came across this most interesting company:
https://www.instra.com/en/domain-names/domain-trustee-services
They are not the only ones. In a different thread I reported another company that is an ICANN accredited registrar that have a similar biz model, the company listed as the accredited registrar seems that it has been incorporated in the US but with a snail address that belongs to a SkyBox service and the phone is a VoIP number that can ring anywhere in the world, well this one actually rings in a southern pacific country. The company does not seem to be incorporated everywhere but has "representatives" all around the world that happen to be a ring of IP and trademark lawyers that offer bundled services to register your domain, trademark, etc, and even offer hosting services !!! While everything has been put together as a legit operation, there are some issues like offering multi-year registrations paid in advance for ccTLDs that only offer yearly (some free) registrations, so if they go belly up the registrant will just get screwed, they also claim to use UDRP where the ccTLD does not and have no acct framework or agreement of any kind with ICANN. Cheers Jorge