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From:
Danny Younger <dannyyounger@yahoo.com>
Date: 21-Mar-2007 01:26
Subject: {Spam?} Re: [At-Large] The Resolutions for the Lisbon Meeting
To:
carlton.samuels@uwimona.edu.jm
Cc: Nick Ashton-Hart <nick.ashton-hart@icann.org>, NA Discuss <na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org
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In respect of AL/2007/R/1, I note (but do not
understand) the remark that the LACRALO Secretariat is
persuaded to the view that this matter is outside of
ICANN's remit.
AL/2007/R/1 calls for the abandonment of ICANN's
5-day Add Grace Period.
The Add Grace Period is an ICANN invention unsupported
by RFC requirements. It is first described by the IETF
in Scott Hollenbeck's September 2004 RFC 3915 as
follows:
In March 2003, ICANN published a task force report
describing other domain registry grace periods related
to EPP operations. This mapping describes extension
status values to note the grace periods
described in the report, including:
An "add grace period" after the initial registration
of a domain name. If the domain name is deleted by the
registrar during this period, the registry provides a
credit to the registrar for the
cost of the registration.
The Add Grace period was originally introduced so that
inadvertent typographical errors made during the
domain name registration process by domain name
registrants could readily be voided. With all the
confirmations and re-confirmations now built into the
domain name registration process, innocent
typographical errors by typical registrants are now
rare in the extreme.
During the course of the last two years, the Add Grace
Period has been put to a new and unintended use as a
vehicle that allows for domain name "tasting" – the
quantification of domain name traffic potential.
Domains are being registered and parked during the Add
Grace Period with advertising content that is
semantically derived from the domain name; should
potential revenues from such advertising exceed the
domain name registration costs the domain is
registered, otherwise it is returned to the pool of
available names.
During the single month of November 2006, the
following quantity of domain names were deleted in
.com and .net: 35,015,877
Over 35 million domain names were registered and not
paid for in these two TLDs during this one month.
Additionally, those engaged in offering professional
domain name tasting services have recently adopted new
tactics (as discussed on the Registrar Discussion List
and elsewhere) that allow for names to be registered
seemingly in perpetuity without payment through an
automated process of
registration/deletion/re-registration/re-deletion etc.
I view these practices as malicious and recall the
commentary in the 5 June 1998 "Statement of Policy,
Management of Internet Names and Addresses," 63 Fed.
Reg. 31741(1998):
"The failure to make a domain name applicant pay for
its use of a domain name has encouraged cyberpirates
and is a practice that should end as soon as
possible."
I recognize that an epidemic of typosquatting has
resulted in conjunction with the proliferation of
domain name tasting services and I seek to curb this
ongoing abuse of the domain name system.
I refer the LACRALO Secretariat to a MicroSoft
Research paper entitled, "Strider Typo-Patrol:
Discovery and Analysis of Systematic Typo-Squatting"
at
http://www.usenix.org/events/sruti06/tech/full_papers/wang/wang.pdf
In closing, I support the elimination of the Add Grace
period and view the recommendation as wholly within
ICANN's remit. ICANN invented this Grace Period; they
can choose to eliminate it.
I look forward to an elucidation of your views.
Best wishes,
Danny Younger
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