Jim,
Short form: Yes, CIRA's nuts. In our experience they will give you more
than 7 days, but you have to move quickly on it. Basically their system
flags names - if Registrant and Legal Type don't match their peculiar
reg_exp, then the domain is marked as suspicious.
As for viewing the legal type... I'll let Ken answer that (I don't know, and
he's not near me to ask *heh*)
Charles Daminato
OpenSRS Product Manager
Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim Whitelaw
> Sent: September 5, 2001 11:48 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: CIRA & 'inconsisitent information'
>
>
> Has anyone else received a note like this:
>
> =================
> Greetings,
>
> We are contacting you because CIRA has notified us of problems
> with some .ca registrations done through your OpenSRS Reseller
> profile. They
> have advised us that a number of domain name records contain
> inconsistent
> information, and that the information needs to be corrected
> within 7 days.
>
> The domain(s) in question is/are:
>
> ...
>
> Note: If the specific problem is not detailed for each name
> above, we do NOT have any more information. Your best course of
> action is to
> review the registration rules below and see which applies to the
> WHOIS for
> the name in question.)
>
> ...
>
> <Much long-winded hoo-hah re: registration rules deleted>
>
> =================
>
> Am I to understand that CIRA is saying to my customer and I that
> they don't like <something> about the registration info, but
> that they won't tell us what exactly they don't like? And that
> the rules for registration are now different than when the
> registrations were originally approved? And that they will
> deactivate the domains if we are not able to magically determine
> the secret incantations and sacred dances they require to be
> performed within 7 days? Are they nuts?
>
> First they make it exceedingly difficult to obtain a .ca name,
> now they're making it hard for those who have successfully
> registered
> to keep one. This is completely crazy. What a bunch of
> incompetent
> boobs running CIRA! They make NSI look good.
>
> OK, here's a real question. The Registrant "Legal Type" may need
> to
> be changed on a couple .ca domains to satisfy these new rules. I
> know
> how to change that via the management interface, but how do I
> verify
> that CIRA has received that change? Neither their whois nor
> OpenSRS
> whois show this info.
>
>
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> Jim Whitelaw tel: +1.780.975.1534
> jim-at-pdsys-dot-com fax: +1.780.484.9239
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