Alan Greenberg wrote:
Personally, I think that the registrar should send a verification code to the paper mailing address provided by the registrant, and not activate the domain until the registrant receives the code and shows (probably by web or email response) that he or she has received it.
I realize this would make the registration process considerably slower and somewhat more expensive, but I see no public interest reason why that's a bad thing.
I agree completely with John on this. As I've mentioned already, this is what happens when registering in the Google Local Business Centre (if you want your business to show up on Google Maps). So there is precedent for this working.
I would guess that this would only need to be done for new Registrar:Registrant relationships.
Perhaps, but with periodic update checks to ensure the data remains accurate.
Once such a trust relationship is established (perhaps periodically renewable) additional registrations would not need to go through the process, thereby significantly reducing the potential impact.
However, it is unclear if this could be effectively implemented in parts of the world with inadequate paper-mail capabilities.
Perhaps, but there are sufficient parts of the world where there adequate postal service exists to justify the tactic. Just because something can't be implemented everywhere is no reason not to implement it anywhere. - Evan