George: you have a super talent for extracting the essence of the issue and I truly admire your style! I have been pretty much yessing everything you had to say and would love to have you as our spokesman! Here is a small contribution to points that might be suitable to Verisign's WLS Questions: (feel free to abbreviate/delete or correct my Czech-English to provide a suitable output for presentation)
1. How does Verisign plan to rectify and answer for it's current flawed and inadequate processes in domain deletion process from it's position as a Registrar? Hoarding expired domains for months or years past the expiration dates: http://www.eyeondomain.com/_expired-domains.htm is a list of domains with expiration dates from MARCH 30, 1999 up to FEB 27, 2001 being monitored for our customers. These consumers repeatedly phone, fax, email to Verisign and ICANN demanding Verisign to release these domains with no success. We have been assisting our clients in bringing the issue of Verisign Hoarding Expired Domains for close to 2 years now, see some of our communication to ICANN's Chief Compliance officer http://www.eyeondomain.com/_expired_icann.html dated June 2001. 2. How does Verisign justify simply discontinuing domain deletions from it's position as Registry? We have an extensive list of domains, deleted by Registrara but not released by the Verisign Registry -such as : Domain Name: L**.COM Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC. Updated Date: 05-nov-2001 -- Domain Name: **.NET Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC. Name Server: NS1.***.COM Updated Date: 20-nov-2001 >>> Last update of whois database: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 17:09:43 EST <<< We can provide many many many other such examples! (actual domains can be submitted to a qualified party as they are currently being monitored for our clients) This practice is viewed as a direct breach of what was Verisign as a Registry hired to do, maintaining Registry database in good order. 3. On what premise does Verisign believe they have the right to impose on Registrar's, Resellers and Registrants it's inadequately managed systems and further propagate the pain and suffering already caused? a) Verisign as a Registry has now proven it will stop it's services to Registrar's and Registrants by unilaterally discontinuing domain deletions from Registry - case and point January 2002, see question #2 b) Verisign as a Registrar is unable to maintain an up-to-date databases in it's current state: If Verisign Registrar does not practice domain hoarding, then those large numbers of domains held months or years past expiration date (aside for legal disputes) are caused by inadequate database management. If Verisign Registrar does not practice mail fraud and intentional erroneous renewal billing and Deactivation Notices on domains transferred to competing Registrars, then the issue is and inadequate database management by Verisign Registrar again. c) Verisign's Customer Service has the worst rating in the industry. Independent Consumer ratings at Epinions give Verisign Registrar only 3% approval while other Registrars score more that 15 times higher in Consumer satisfaction. http://www.epinions.com/cmsw-EmailChat-All-networksolutions_com/display_~rev iews Other independent consumer testimonies and media resonate with considerable level of dissatisfaction with Verisign Domain related services http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/04/02/010402opfoster.xml http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=535&mode=thread&order=0 http://www.nsihorrorstories.com http://forum.icann.org/offtopic/ Cheers Genie Livingstone http://www.eyeondomain.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Kirikos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "William X Walsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 7:37 PM Subject: Re: OpenSRS Resellers: Questions to Verisign re: WLS?? > Hi William, > > --- William X Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wednesday, Wednesday, February 06, 2002, 2:58:48 PM, George Kirikos > > wrote: > > > We also need a point of contact for the group. If someone at Tucows > > > would like to be the liaison, that might be best. Or, if there are > > no > > > volunteers, I can do it, although perhaps someone with more > > experience > > > like William Walsh, Genie, Don, or others who've been following > > this > > > issue would like to take the lead being the representative -- > > consider > > > yourselves nominated! :). > > > > Run with it George, you've done a great job, and please add my name > > to > > your document of questions. > > If no one else wants to, I'll do it, but my preference would be for > someone else to be the rep. Verisign tends to ignore my questions on > the DNSO mailing list, so I don't want to hurt the chances of > everyone's questions being answered by being the rep. It's more fun > behind the scenes, anyhow! (that's where the action is) :) > > Did you have more questions for Verisign to add to the pile? They have > a whole week to answer them, so this is our chance to make them earn > their $180 million/year for managing the registry.... :) > > Sincerely, > > George Kirikos > http://www.kirikos.com/ > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! > http://greetings.yahoo.com > >
