If you believe a domain has improper contact information our compliance department can help out (for OpenSRS sponsored names, of course) - other registrars are responsible for maintaining accurate whois records for their registrants.
Also, we prefer not to delete - if there's no reason for it, simply allowing the domain to expire (and then delete) should suffice. For legal reasons we can delete domain names. 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 1:30 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: selling things that aren't yours... > > > 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/ >
