Well.. you pretty much answer your own questions in the email: > On occasion, we get queries from parties interested in purchasing these > domains. Our traditional response has been to tell these parties that > the domains are simply unavailable until they eventually expire.
You should maintain this policy > What's a reasonable amount of time a domain should be left unattended > and in violation of ICANN guidelines regarding WHOIS data validity before > it can be considered up for grabs? ICANN policy states that whois data must be valid for a registrant to retain ownership. However, the recourse is to report he anomaly (to us), or try to contact the registrant. If the whois information is not updated, the domain is forfeit and released to the pool for re-registration. At no time is it legal to forfeit the name and "sell/give" it to someone else. Charles Daminato OpenSRS Product Manager Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Chvostek > Sent: May 1, 2002 12:15 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: selling things that aren't yours... > > > > Hiya. > > We have a number of domains that are still well off from their registry > expiry dates which refer to our DNS servers at the registry and have > email addresses within domains managed here. These are domains for > which hosting contracts have expired and the customers have gone AWOL. > The admin email addresses are obviously invalid, and in many cases the > telephone numbers are not in service. We haven't gone to the extent of > sending paper reminders to the addresses listed in the domains' WHOIS > records, but I suspect many of them are no longer valid as well. We > point the web pages for these domains to a numbered virtualhost that > tells people to contact our billing department if they are the owner of > the domain and would like to set up hosting with us. > > On occasion, we get queries from parties interested in purchasing these > domains. Our traditional response has been to tell these parties that > the domains are simply unavailable until they eventually expire. But > if the "real" owner is nowhere to be found, by either email or phone, > is there a point where we can consider the domain to be "abandonned", > and facilitate its transfer to a new owner prior to its registry-listed > expiry date? > > I'm thinking this is analagous to marine "right of salvage". What's a > reasonable amount of time a domain should be left unattended and in > violation of ICANN guidelines regarding WHOIS data validity before it > can be considered up for grabs? If anyone has experience with this sort > of situation, or pointers to relevant official documentation on the > matter, I'd love to hear about it. > > p > > -- > Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Operations / Development / Abuse / Whatever vox: +1 416 598-0000 > it.canada http://www.it.ca/ >
