Re: Verisign Screw-up

[POWERHOUSE]

>If I pay $5M for a candy bar and someone steals it from me, I'm entitled to the cost of a candy bar, not what I paid for that >candy bar.  My stupidity doesn't reserve a reward. Actually that is like comparing apples to oranges. A domain is a BUSINESS OR a personal site. If someone STEALS a personal site, that has no value, but a BUSINESS site, is YOUR INCOME. Lets flip your "illustration" around. You bought a Candy bar for 5 Million Dollars, and someone stole it, you're only entitled to the VALUE of the candy bar, right, but Say you had a MEDICAL need for that candy bar, and that KIND OF CANDY BAR ALONE, IT WAS YOUR LIVELIHOOD. Now your entitled to much more.   When someone steals your Business, or in other words, YOUR LIVELIHOOD, you have them in a bad spot. I don't care, what they say to get out of it, there is a way around everything, EVEN paying TAXES IN THE USA.   They stole his/her Business(domain for doing business), and they broke ICANN's policy in doing so. Therefore, it don't matter what their Agreement is, they have to abide by ICANN's rules, GRANTED, they don't always, but they cannot make an Agreement, which breaks ICANN's agreement they agreed to, it won't hold up in a court of law, that I do know. That is like, me, If I where on Parole, I would have to AGREE to stay in a certain, city, I could not go make a contract to do some work outside of the city, as that would break my other one. You just can't do that, it's a "Conflict" of interests, you Agree to one, but then you make someone agree to something you are BOUND NOT TO DO! Won't work. At least not in the States. Of course they are a big huge company, and will probably oil the judges pocket, and then there TOS, or RA or whatever will hold up, ONLY because of the money to the judge, or what have you.   Anyways, that is how I see it. I am not an attorney, but I do retain the Services of a very big firm, so I can talk with one, just about anytime I need to. However, since I am NOT an attorney, I do suggest that you DO, talk with an attorney before you take my OPINION to heart, as I don't want to be responsible for someone listening to me, then getting in hot water. SO TALK TO AN ATTORNEY. Thanks Richard. http://www.myfrh.com Now get the FIRST 45 Days FREE!! Prices Starting at ONLY $1.95 Per Month! http://www.myfrh.com/reg.cgi Domain names, starting at ONLY $8.50 Per Year! .US IS HERE! http://www.myfrh.com/name.cgi Pre-Register your .name domain TODAY! ----- Original Message ----- From: Roger B.A. Klorese To: POWERHOUSE ; Kevin ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 7:35 PM Subject: Re: Verisign Screw-up At 03:22 PM 5/2/2002 -0500, POWERHOUSE wrote: From a legal point of view, if the domain was not suppose to expire until Sept of this year, you have them bent over a barrell. They where "Negligent" to let it go, before it even expired. I'm not an attorney, but I would call one right away, ESPECIALLY since you paid so much money for the domain to start with. If I pay $5M for a candy bar and someone steals it from me, I'm entitled to the cost of a candy bar, not what I paid for that candy bar.  My stupidity doesn't reserve a reward. No domain is "valuable."  They're all arbitrary strings of characters; we've pretty well proven that people who are looking to buy a car, for instance, anre no more likely to blindly go to cars.com as anywhere else.