Hello, With all the domain thefts going around (I just got a call from someone about yet another one today), I wanted to make a product suggestion. A professional-level WHOIS monitoring system. Given Tucows is a registrar, they'd have better ability to do this than others who have tried (e.g. WHOIS.SC has a free system), via the batch-pool, etc.
For domains that are already at OpenSRS, the monitoring is simple (just add an event manager that is triggered when a domain change is made, such as unlocking, nameserver change, or WHOIS contact/registrant change). For domains not yet transferred into OpenSRS, but that one wants monitored, I'm not sure of all the info the RRP access gives one for .com (the thick registries obviously provide more details), but if one can monitor the nameservers, lock status, last updated date and registrar (which is info available from Internic), that would likely provide sufficient security. Pricing would hopefully be reasonable...contact via various methods (email, pager, etc) and monitoring frequencies.. perhaps team up with those "uptime" monitoring services, that already have the infrastructure in place. In an industry where price competition is fierce, I think security is one of the ways to add value (a lot of folks considering getting a Mac or moving to Linux, for example, to avoid Windows security problems). Already a lot of the best Internet companies use OpenSRS because of that (e.g. Microsoft.com is registered at OpenSRS) and also large banks (e.g. Citicorp.com), and I doubt that is by random chance. Sincerely, George Kirikos http://www.kirikos.com/
