>>What's the prevailing policy for dealing with content related abuse? >>i.e. phishing sites, etc. Are you suspending domain names? Seizing them? >>Deleting them? Doing nothing?
Hi Ross, We seize the domains if we have evidence of phishing activity - I deal with these cases myself to ensure this is what they are doing. Make sure you write this in your T&C's but in Russia this is a criminal act - so good luck defending that one legally (and we'd make them fight it over here!). One reason for this is bad publicity we get if you leave them running but I feel we have some social responsibility to take them down. However no one is going to reward your social conscience :). You always loose the resulting chargeback when it comes in. Funny enough the last one we had was for the very bank which pushed through the chargeback. They were very apologetic and thanked me for taking down the site but couldn't do any more than that. So yes - you can police your own domains but you will end up paying for them, which seems ridiculous. GoDaddy's policy is to them take any other domains by the client hostage until they pay a 'release fee' (penalty?). I'm not sure I agree with this but anyway all the phishing domains we have had were one-off accounts. Best Regards, Nick CEO e3internet http://www.e3internet.com _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
