> The only problem I have with this is we don't tell people in big bold > letters when they register their domain that they risk losing it if they > don't answer email sent to their admin email address every five days > during any time of the year.
One of my next projects will be a 'Registrant Manual' aimed at educating registrants on these sorts of issues. It'll be a vanilla flavoured thing that you folks can take, brand, and distribute happily.... I'd hope to be done something like that by July; feel free, of course, to draft a nice introductory letter to your new Admin contacts in the meantime. > I'm actually surprised that more domains aren't hijacked with this > policy, since it would be fairly easy to target domains with bogus email > addresses and simply transfer them away. With many domains not actively > used (held to protect IP or for future use, etc), the act may go > unnoticed for quite a long time - certainly long enough to resell > interesting domain names to others... Right...but there are mechanisms for dealing with this.....but it does sometimes get messy. > It just seems like a harsh penalty to me. "Don't answer email when you > are on vacation and lose your domain." I have an answering machine that > answers my phone when I'm out. My mail will wait for me to return from > vacation. If I own a domain name, I risk losing it when I'm on > vacation... Right.....I did admit to being harsh on this one. Consider though, that all your points, while academically sound, were rendered irrelevant a couple of weeks ago by the handy dandy Domain Locking feature. > Not all domains are owned by businesses. Fair. >Not everyone answers their > email in a week. People will evolve :) Ken. > It will be a problem someday. I'm surprised it's not a problem already. > I suspect it's because not a huge population understands the auto-ack > policy today. > -Tim > -- > myOstrich Internet > http://www.myostrich.net >
