Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a winner :) You are correct, A court order is the one valid reason to delete a domain.
It's still stupid. Because deleting a domain simply causes it to become available and cause problems all over again. But we have libraries full of stupid laws. I believe that lawyers want domains deleted so that they can make money on fighting the same case over and over. Patrick wrote: > > If I may, > > On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 11:56:09AM -0500, Robert Rivers took time to write: > > > No, there are legitimate reasons why a registrant would like his > > > domain killed immediately instaed of "expiring". It's possible, so it > > > should be available. > > > > For example? > > When a court decides that the domain name must be deleted. In that > case it must be deleted, since Registrars must follow what justice > says to them. > > Also, more precisely, if a court decides that a registrant must > delete its domain name, then the registrant must do it. > In cases we already had here at Gandi, people have penalties, like > 10000FRF/per day after the date they were given to delete the domain > name. So they are pretty heavy to make it really deleted... > > Patrick. -- Robert Rivers OpenSRS Technical Operations http://www.opensrs.org/Support_FAQ.shtml
