Re: [atlarge-discuss] Internet Registry of Canada Charged

[espresso@e-scape.net]

At 17:08 -0800 2002/10/30, Jeff Williams wrote:
>Danny and all stakeholders or other interested parties and members,
>
>  From this it seems that all is not well in Canada, much to Judyth's
>and Ted's chagrin I am sure...  It seems that our friends to the north,
>good friends that they surely are, also have their Internet policy
>and practice problems as well...  Such is life...

Note that "Internet Registry of Canada" is a company, not the registrar for the .ca ccTLD which is called CIRA.

Note, too, that what they did was send domain name owners whose domains were registered with other registrars letters inviting them to "renew" with IRC instead, said letters being made to look like invoices in the hopes that people will pay them without realizing they came from the wrong registrar.

As a domain name owner, I got half-a-dozen pieces of junkmail along those lines (varying somewhat in the degree of deceptiveness) from registrars hoping to steal my business away from the registrar I actually deal with. Most were sent from the U.S. and one of them was from Verisign, which was duly slapped on the wrist by an American court.

Unfortunately, a certain percentage of the human race believe deceptive or downright fraudulent business practices are okay as long as you make money, and they're not all located in any one nation. ANY in Canada is too many for me but, as you can see, our system does work to bring the cheaters to justice eventually;  if it could only move faster against those wretched telemarketers, we'd be even luckier!

Regards,

Judyth


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