[atlarge-discuss] An opportunity to help

[DannyYounger@cs.com]

On May 23, a Mr. Al Bode wrote a letter and posted it to the ALAC forum -- 
http://forum.icann.org/alac-forum/domain/msg00000.html

No one on the ALAC has even noticed this letter.  Mr. Bode's problem deals 
with hosting companies that list themselves as the registrant/administrative 
contact when registering domain names for clients of their hosting services.  
When these Hosting/ISP entities go bankrupt, it poses a problem for those 
individuals that paid for rights to the domains but now are faced with a registrar 
that won't respond to their needs (as registrars will cite ICANN rules that 
disallow namespace changes if such modifications are not authorized by the 
registrant and/or administrative contact).  

This particular practice is common in the hosting community worldwide, and 
affects a substantial number of registrants (many of whom aren't educated with 
regard to the finer points of DNS registration services) as a fair number of 
ISPs go out of business on a regular basis.  

If the ALAC won't communicate with Mr. Bode, perhaps the members of 
icannatlarge can act to help solve this vexing problem by bringing the issue to the 
attention of the ICANN Board.  What is probably called for is the development of 
a set of "Best Practices for ISPs" that has the blessing of ICANN's ISP 
Constituency.  It might also be wise for ICANN to survey the ISP Community to 
determine the magnitude of the problem (most especially in the developing world).

Here is an opportunity to help.  How will this organization act to address 
this challenge?

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