Hi Andrew On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 11:51:08AM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > 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.
There is a grace period. It was put there so that domain owners are able
to correct a mistake.
If there is a grace period, what would be proper would be to disable the
domain from working until it is renewed or the grace period expires when
it's available for grabs.
In the bit of time that the registrar gets access before it's renewed,
the website loses its reputation with nefarious ad serving. Yes
nefarious, because the "relevant" ads in question during that time would
be of the kind that would offer to let the user download GIMP, but get
something else on the computer. There doesn't have to be a risk of
that. Enough money is already charged for domain registration that such
quick switching tactics are unnecessary.
> 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?
Car leases don't come with grace periods either.
We can argue this :) , but you surely understand the difference between
providing a clean 30 day grace period and what is happening now.
Mukund
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