Ron and all,
Ahhhh good Ron, you are finally seeing the light! >;) It is sad
that ICANN in it's infinite wisdom (clearing my throat), has ignored
this potential problem and by doing so created a much bigger mess
than when NSI did all of the registrations simply to address Domain
Name dispute policy that NSI had. Now they will likely have more
disputes of much higher stakes then ever before.
Ron Bennett wrote:
> At 06:24 PM 12/23/99 -0500, Dena Whitebirch wrote:
> >> > Most whois clients query the public NSIRegistry database first
> >> > which only updates *once per day* so it's quite possible for
> >> > someone to do a domain query and be shown the old whois
> >> > information of the old registrar. Nothing is wrong.
> >>
> >> No, nothing is wrong as far as the design goes. But of course that is
> >> not far enough, is it. Therefore leaving the ability for registrars to
> >> "Steal" domain names and/or create a domain name conflict from the
> >> get go. Doesn't say much for stability, does it?
> >
> >The more I think about this today...because we have to query the
> >individual whois databases of the individual registrars, and because they
> >can update them when and however they wish, it would seem that now a whois
> >query is merely an opinion of a particular registrar without possibly any
> >basis in fact.
>
> Perhaps this is what Jeff meant in his last reply...it's very frightening
> how there's no central database of domain name registrants (owners)
> anywhere. I have strongly suggested this for quite sometime, but
> ICANN chose to leave all accountability upto the individual registrars.
>
> Very scary!! ICANN, NSI (who of course will be blamed too), and
> others involved with the SRS will have blood on their hands should a
> registrar steal or lose thousands of people's domain names - I don't
> think some of the people making policy realize how valuable domain
> names have become - there are people and companies out there that
> will spend millions upon millions of dollars to protect their property; ie
> the various trademark suits of late...what I really worry about are what
> some individuals WHOSE LIVELYHOOD (aka survival) center around
> their domain name(s) will do if they lose their domains and
> ICANN / NSI tells them they're out of luck...it ain't going to be pretty
> and will make for horrible publicity all around.
>
> Ron Bennett
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