Re: [atlarge-discuss] An opportunity to help

[Sotiris Sotiropoulos <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>]

One of my cliets recently went through a similar scenario.  They were 
completely at the mercy of someone who'd registered their domain under 
his own control.

I agree, this is a big problem.  I would be happy to help prepare 
something which can be delivered on behalf of icannatlarge at the 
meeting in Montreal.  
--Sotiris Sotiropoulos

DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:

> 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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