[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] New Year Challenge

Stephanie Perrin stephanie.perrin at mail.utoronto.ca
Wed Jan 4 18:34:09 UTC 2017


I am certainly convinced now.

SP


On 2017-01-04 13:22, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 12:54:57PM -0500, Stephanie Perrin wrote:
>> is also becoming crystal clear that the "dumb" user may not be dealing with
>> someone who takes his/her fiduciary responsibilities seriously, particularly
>> with respect to the retention of the domain.  If I let someone register my
>> small business name for me, would I necessarily know that it was registered
>> in a resellers name?  IF the reseller gets an offer, even a modest one, to
>> buy the name, how confident can I be that my registrar/reseller/hosting
>> company will not let it go to the higher bidder?
> Presumably, this is what the contracts you had with your vendor are
> for.  It is certainly not within ICANN's mission to have it go around
> enforcing every contractual relationship anyone ever undertakes with
> respect to domain names, and I do not want to live in the world where
> that _does_ become part of ICANN's mission.
>
> But in any case, all of this appears to illustrate pretty convincingly
> why being able to look up the actual party who actually registered a
> domain is at least _prima facie_ pretty useful for network operations.
> Right?
>
> Best regards,
>
> A
>

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