On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 09:02:04PM +0530, Mukund Sivaraman wrote: > What I had asked above was: except disabling it (i.e., > disrupting/denying access), how is the registrar permitted to control > the domain (redirecting to their NS to serve A records, which is > nefarious)?
It's not nefarious. The registration is expired. If the registrar did this during the registered period, then it would be nefarious. If you let the registration lapse, you effectively say that you don't care about it. I'm not surprised that registrars are doing all in their power to find another person to pay for the registration. ICANN accredited registrars in ICANN-contracted registries have all sorts of notification requirements for name expiry. Way often such notices go unheeded or are treated as spam, and many times registrants fail to keep their contact information up to date so that they don't receive the appropriate notices. If you did this with your car lease, your car would be repossessed. Why should domain names be different? Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan [email protected]
