----- Original Message ----- From: "Declan McCullagh" To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 11:47 AM Subject: [Politech] Is your domain safe from suspension? Here's a survey of registrars [fs]
: So the discussion on Politech about the reliability of domain registrars : led to this survey, which we published today: : http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6155614.html : : Excerpt: "We found that the French registrar Gandi.net and New : Orleans-based DirectNIC offered the most extensive guarantees against : unnecessary domain name suspension." : : I've included the survey questions below. Previous Politech messages: : http://www.politechbot.com/2007/01/29/jim-davidson-on/ : http://www.politechbot.com/2007/01/29/response-to-godaddys/ : : -Declan : : --- : : 1. Under what circumstances will you suspend a customer's domain name : based on the content of his or her Web site, in the absence of a court : order? : : 2. How many times a month, on average, do you suspend a customer's : domain name based on the content of his or her Web site? : : 3. What are the most common reasons for suspension? : : 4. How many domain names do your customers currently have registered : through you? : : 5. GoDaddy last week suspended its customer's domain, seclists.org, : because of a complaint from MySpace. Would you have done the same thing : in the same way if seclists.org happened to be your customer? : : 6. If you do suspend domain names in the absence of a court order, what : procedures do you have in place to ensure that the customer is notified : beforehand and given adequate opportunity to respond? : : 7. Do you believe that your most important responsibility is to provide : technical services to paying customers -- or is it to police the content : of their Web sites, FTP sites, and so on? : : 8. Are you attempting to recruit GoDaddy customers as a result of last : week's news about seclists.org? : : 9. If you do suspend domain names in the absence of a court order, how : do your customers go about getting their sites restored? : : 10. Do you have a dedicated department or person who handles issues : related to domain name suspensions? : ________________________________________ _______ : Politech mailing list : Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ : Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/) :
