To: "Jim McAtee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: Can a domain be released?
Jim McAtee wrote:
Is there any means of simply releasing a .com domain that has years remaining on its registration?
Releasing?
If you mean deleting, as far as I know OpenSRS requires a court order.
I mean an owner who no longer wishes to have any claim to a domain name turning it back in to the available name pool. Forfeiting all rights and any remaining registration-years on the domain. I suppose the owner can always change the owner name and email to someone that does or doesn't exist, but it seems there should be a way to divorce yourself from the name. This should also release any association of the name with a registrar or reseller.
In a sense, it's not that big a deal. If someone doesn't want a domain name, probably nobody else wants it either, so being tied up for a few years might not hurt anything. But say someone wants to get rid of a domain, so they change the owner name and all of the contact emails to something bogus and then someone DOES want to register the name a couple years down the line, won't they have to jump through some hoops to be able to gain ownership of it?
Seems rather odd if domain name 'ownership' is something to which you cannot relinquish rights to once you've registered it.
