At 7:25 PM -0400 8/14/01, Ross Wm. Rader wrote:
> > > Personally, it doesn't really matter if people are trying to steal my
>> > domains... just be thankful you're not with NSI where it used to be
>(still
>> > is?) trivial to steal domains from another individual.
>>
>> Is it any more trivial then at OpenSRS? Just a forged fax away from
>owning
>> any domain you want, right?
>
>nope...transfer requests are only honored through the system. Registrant
>changes only through the MWI with a valid U:P - court order or WIPO decision
>beyond that. There are other limited situations where we will act, but these
>are typically to assist a verified registrant get a name back that was lost
>due to insufficient process at another registrar...(ie - another registrar
>receives a forged fax, changes the admin contact email address and then lets
>the pirate registrant transfer to us...)
Let me play devil's advocate for a second.
I work for $BIG_COMPANY, and manage their domains. I alone know the
username/password combo.
$BIG_COMPANY fires me during YAMROL[1]
$BIG_COMPANY now needs to move their nameservers to new IP's, or
perform some other maintenance on their domain.
Is it accurate to say that $BIG_COMPANY, even though they're listed
as the owner, has absolutely no way short of a court order of getting
it done?
I'm not passing judgement here, I'm just noting that what's being
described above is VERY tight security, and I'm not sure it is all
that practical in all cases. It's cool that the "fake fax" won't get
a xfer moved, but at what cost? *chuckle*
I guess I'm asking "how firm IS that position?"
D
[1] Yet Another Massive Round Of Layoffs
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