On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 11:44:20AM -0400, Charles Daminato wrote: > > > 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
No problem, but if I can *add* to the policy something that will both help to enforce ICANN policies and potentially gain us new customers, it would seem like a good thing. ;) > 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. So... No "right of salvage" in the domain name space. How do we go about recommending/requesting release of a domain? Is there perhaps an "official" process that ICANN wants followed for such things? Is it documented somewhere? For that matter, there doesn't seem to be a process to request release of domains at all with OpenSRS; NetSol lets you "delete" a domain record (and forfeit the remainder of the registration period) using their email form, but I don't see it mentioned anywhere for OpenSRS. -- Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Operations / Development / Abuse / Whatever vox: +1 416 598-0000 it.canada http://www.it.ca/
