I am going to make this issue a topic for the next regional call (not the name.com subdomain typo thing), what is and what isn't appropriate for the list. It is an issue which has come up frequently. From: joly.nyc@gmail.com [mailto:joly.nyc@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Joly MacFie Sent: Wednesday, March 6, 2013 9:43 PM To: John R. Levine Cc: Garth Bruen; NA Discuss Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] OFFTOPIC Fwd: Name.com hijacking subdomains Although I raised it. On review I guess I agree with John, it's not a big deal. j On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 8:54 PM, John R. Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote: John, I believe Name.com is also a Registrar. Yes, they are. But so what? DNS hosting is a separate service unrelated to any agreement they have with ICANN. If the customers are unhappy with the service, they can go elsewhere. This isn't like sitefinder, it's just a random low-cost hosting company doing random low-cost hosting things. R's, John -----Original Message----- From: John R. Levine [mailto:johnl@iecc.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 6, 2013 8:22 PM To: Joly MacFie Cc: Garth Bruen; NA Discuss Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] OFFTOPIC Fwd: Name.com hijacking subdomains What does this have to do with ICANN or NARALO? If you don't like your hosting provider, switch to a better one. Oh, they admit it alright. http://www.name.com/blog/general/domains/2012/01/pro-tip-how-to-get-ri d-of-that-pesky-parking-page/ Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly ------ NA-Discuss mailing list NA-Discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/na-discuss Visit the NARALO online at http://www.naralo.org ------ Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- -