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I just read a message to some other list (tucows registrar resellers) that says that NetSol (the registrar) will also delete IDN names as of February 28, 2004. (I guess they missed out on the extra day February has this year.) It seems this is about .com and .net names. One has to transfer them to another registrar, they say, or they die. Welcome to Oklahoma. I am now very mad. It is time ICANN acts up or it will lose goodwill altogether. Can individual registrars do this? ICANN accredited? Does that mean anything? You can read the message I refer to below. I am not sure it is proper to attach it, but I see no other way to give you the information. The archives require a password, I think. Marc Schneiders --- NCUC council member --- Another one concerning Multilingual Domains. "On February 28, 2004, Network Solutions, LLC will no longer offer or support Multilingual Domain Name registrations (MDNs). A list of your domain name registration(s) affected by this change is provided below. In order to keep your .COM and .NET MDNs registered to you, you must transfer them to another provider before February 28, 2004. If these MDNs are not transferred, they will be deleted from our database which will make them available for registration by anyone. Your MDNs will continue to be listed in your Network Solutions(R) account until you complete the transfer process or until we delete them on February 28, 2004. You do not need to renew your MDNs in order to process your transfer. Please be assured that these changes only apply to Multilingual Domain Names. Network Solutions will continue to support your other domain name registrations and services. If you have any questions, please contact Customer Support at mailto:customerservice@networksolutions.com. Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Sincerely, Network Solutions(R) Customer Support Multilingual Domain Names with Network Solutions as of December 30, 2003: BQ--....COM ___________________________________________________________________ Please do not respond to this message. For inquiries, contact Customer Service at mailto:customerservice@networksolutions.com. (C) Copyright 2004 Network Solutions, LLC. All rights reserved." The Domain is still listed in race code in the nestol control panel but does not appear anymore in whois in race code. The whois output directly from netsol for the domain name in puny code looks like that (no owner info): Domain Name: XN--....COM Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC. Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com Name Server: NS1.TOTALCHOICEHOSTING.COM Name Server: NS2.TOTALCHOICEHOSTING.COM Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK Updated Date: 14-dec-2003 Creation Date: ..-aug-2003 Expiration Date: ..-aug-2005
Marc Schneiders wrote:
I just read a message to some other list (tucows registrar resellers) that says that NetSol (the registrar) will also delete IDN names as of February 28, 2004. (I guess they missed out on the extra day February has this year.) It seems this is about .com and .net names. One has to transfer them to another registrar, they say, or they die.
Well, some good news at last!! The sad part is that this has not been mandated by ICANN directly but only applied by some players, the most reasonable. What's your complaint, Marc? Amadeu
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, at 08:15 [=GMT+0100], Amadeu Abril i Abril wrote:
Marc Schneiders wrote:
I just read a message to some other list (tucows registrar resellers) that says that NetSol (the registrar) will also delete IDN names as of February 28, 2004. (I guess they missed out on the extra day February has this year.) It seems this is about .com and .net names. One has to transfer them to another registrar, they say, or they die.
Well, some good news at last!! The sad part is that this has not been mandated by ICANN directly but only applied by some players, the most reasonable.
I don't understand you, I am afraid. You think NetSol is doing the right thing?
What's your complaint, Marc?
As for ICANN: Lack of consumer protection. The point I was trying to make though, is that this (PIR dropping .ORG IDNs, see my other message, and NetSol doing something similar) is a relevant incident for the discussion about 'Approval of changes in registry services'. For me this PDP has no real value, if it doesn't take care of this type of incidents, makes sure they will not happen in the future. I know that ICANN did not approve the Verisign IDN testbed. It did not tell Verisign it should stop it either. It did redelegate ORG to PIR, which at first kept the IDN names running, then silently dropped them from the DNS, and now, it seems will silently delete them, without ever informing the registrants. This will give the domain name 'industry' a bad name. It might even be brought to court.
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