At minimum, you should see the full contact info of the person requesting the transfer. Of course, there will be those who will spoof identities.
Swerve on 1/27/04 11:54 AM, Mark E. Mallett at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 05:04:00PM -0700, Jim McAtee wrote: >> >> It's an imperfect system, but I don't see what requesting a domain transfer >> violates. >> >> If I call you on the telphone and ask you to transfer the title to your car >> to me, you're likely to tell me to go to hell. If you're really stupid and >> say yes, without my deceiving or threatening you, then guess what? The car's >> mine. >> >> I would think approximately the same applies with domain names. If you're >> deceived into approving a transfer, you have recourse to get the domain back, >> though I highly doubt you have recourse beyond that. Like the letter said, >> it's up to you to reject the request. > > Sorry for the late reply. My point is not that the system allows > legitimate domain name transfers, or even mistakes by people who don't > know they are doing something wrong. It's not even that I can prevent > it, which I can and did. The point is that there is a wall between > people who are knowingly attempting to gain a domain name by tricking > people-- between those people and their victims. As I mentioned in my > initial posting, you used to be able to tell who it was who initiated > the request. I'd like to see that information be made available to > the victim, or at the very least, I'd like to see some kind of policy > that would provide even a little amount of punishment or any > disincentive to the people who attempt these things. > > A further aggravation (as I said) is that very pointed comments to NSI > to this effect get only replies to things I didn't say. "Can you > either tell me who did this, or do some kind of followup yourselves?" > "we recommend that you refuse the request." "that wasn't the question; > what about some kind of followthrough against these scammers?" "we > recommend that you lock your domain." like, argh. > > > George Kirikos's reply was to the point: > >> A system that would help identify more thieves would scare most of >> them away --- let them go back to selling crack or other illicit >> behaviour, instead of stealing domains. > > Anyway, enough on that. I fully expect somebody else to now tell me to > lock my domain and refuse the transfer. > > mm
