Re: [Fwd: Important ICANN Notice Regarding Your Domain Name(s)]

2006-10-07 Thread Matt Ghali
On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Chris Adams wrote: Heh. We had an IP (of a customer's mail server) that GoDaddy blocked. They told us it had been blocked for something like 8 months (at which time it had not been assigned to any customer); we had zero complaints on record for that IP. They couldn't tell

Re: [Fwd: Important ICANN Notice Regarding Your Domain Name(s)]

2006-10-07 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On 10/7/06, Matt Ghali [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I must be dumb, but how does a registrar 'block an ip' in a manner that affects anyone but themselves? Godaddy also hosts a sizeable number of vanity domains registered with them If you register with them you have the option of also buying NS,

Re: [Fwd: Important ICANN Notice Regarding Your Domain Name(s)]

2006-10-06 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Frank Bulk [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: GoDaddy's abuse desk is not so easy to work with...I have had two different times that a whole /24 was blocked even though parts of the address space were split between different providers (and customers), but GoDaddy would hardly relent.

Re: [Fwd: Important ICANN Notice Regarding Your Domain Name(s)]

2006-10-05 Thread Robert L Mathews
Steve Sobol wrote: It may depend on your registrar. [...] I don't think there's any global requirement for the registrars to do it Actually, there is these days: http://www.icann.org/registrars/wdrp.htm Registrars have to annually provide a copy of that info to the customer, although

Re: [Fwd: Important ICANN Notice Regarding Your Domain Name(s)]

2006-10-05 Thread Joe Abley
On 4-Oct-2006, at 19:04, Steve Sobol wrote: ICANN *does* have a requirement for accurate information in WHOIS and while I don't know how strongly the requirement is enforced, they *can* pull your domain registration if you don't have accurate information. While I'm not familiar with the

Re: [Fwd: Important ICANN Notice Regarding Your Domain Name(s)]

2006-10-05 Thread Steve Sobol
On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Alexander Harrowell wrote: Are you sure it's genuine? Those WWD domains (especially secureserver.net) account for a large fraction of the spam and phishing attempts I receive. SecureServer.net is GoDaddy. If you have domains hosted at GoDaddy or a reseller, your customer

Re: [Fwd: Important ICANN Notice Regarding Your Domain Name(s)]

2006-10-05 Thread Christopher Chin
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 (16:41 -0700), Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 16:41:21 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Fwd: Important ICANN Notice Regarding Your Domain Name(s)] I receive these sorts-of notices from our OpenSRS-based

Re: [Fwd: Important ICANN Notice Regarding Your Domain Name(s)]

2006-10-05 Thread Steve Sobol
On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Steve Sobol wrote: On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Alexander Harrowell wrote: Are you sure it's genuine? Those WWD domains (especially secureserver.net) account for a large fraction of the spam and phishing attempts I receive. SecureServer.net is GoDaddy. If you have

RE: [Fwd: Important ICANN Notice Regarding Your Domain Name(s)]

2006-10-05 Thread Frank Bulk
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Sobol Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 10:05 AM To: Alexander Harrowell Cc: Joe Abley; Chris Stone; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Fwd: Important ICANN Notice Regarding Your Domain Name(s)] On Thu, 5 Oct 2006

Re: [Fwd: Important ICANN Notice Regarding Your Domain Name(s)]

2006-10-04 Thread Steve Sobol
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Chris Stone wrote: On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 14:27 -0700, Thomas Leavitt wrote: Is this a GoDaddy specific thing? I've owned and/or managed an untold number domain names since 1995 and never seen a notification of this sort before (primary registrar to this date was

Re: [Fwd: Important ICANN Notice Regarding Your Domain Name(s)]

2006-10-04 Thread Brandon Butterworth
ICANN *does* have a requirement for accurate information in WHOIS That's the reason for those notifications. I've found the ones that need updating often don't reach the recipient because their details are incorrect. The rest are just spam (we have several 1000 domains...). brandon

Re: [Fwd: Important ICANN Notice Regarding Your Domain Name(s)]

2006-10-04 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 03:38:02PM -0600, Chris Stone wrote: On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 14:27 -0700, Thomas Leavitt wrote: Is this a GoDaddy specific thing? I've owned and/or managed an untold number domain names since 1995 and never seen a notification of this sort before (primary registrar to

Re: [Fwd: Important ICANN Notice Regarding Your Domain Name(s)]

2006-10-04 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I receive these sorts-of notices from our OpenSRS-based registrar numerous times a year (usually once a month, for multiple domains). It may have something to do with the fact that I refuse to comply with ICANN's mandatory regulation demanding legitimate public contact

Re: [Fwd: Important ICANN Notice Regarding Your Domain Name(s)]

2006-10-04 Thread Steve Sobol
On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Brandon Butterworth wrote: ICANN *does* have a requirement for accurate information in WHOIS That's the reason for those notifications. I've found the ones that need updating often don't reach the recipient because their details are incorrect. Sure - but that's

Re: [Fwd: Important ICANN Notice Regarding Your Domain Name(s)]

2006-10-04 Thread Steve Sobol
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: This reason is almost guaranteed. I'd been watching this thread with some mild curiosity, since I have never received such a notification, for any domain. All my data is accurate (nothing is hidden, everything is there). Interesting. I had no idea