Re: [atlarge-discuss] An opportunity to help

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Sotiris and all fellow members,

  How do you really think you can help this guy?  Are you willing
to provide or is this organization prepared to provide legal
services Pro Bono for Mr. Bode?  Somehow I seriously
doubt that.  But this is just the type/sort of problem
and fledgling organization like this one may one day become
should be addressing.

  What Mr. Bode needs to do is seek good legal council
that has handled these sorts of cases and sue.  Worked for
for three of our [INEGroup] members rather well.

Sotiris Sotiropoulos wrote:

> 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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> ancients regarded fire- namely, as something existing absolutely.
> But for history, the state and power are merely phenomena, just as for
> modern physics fire is not an element but a phenomenon.
>
> >From this fundamental difference between the view held by history
> and that held by jurisprudence, it follows that jurisprudence can tell
> minutely how in its opinion power should be constituted and what
> power- existing immutably outside time- is, but to history's questions
> about the meaning of the mutations of power in time it can answer
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Regards,

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Jeffrey A. Williams
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