[registrars] Congressional Hearing

[Ross Wm. Rader]

On 2/13/2004 12:47 PM Rick Wesson noted that:


> If I were to hand a registrar a list of domains that had invalid
> registrant data -- a long list. And those domains were never updated with
> correct information, would you advocate that the registrar must delete
> said domains?

Every day we stick dozens of letters in the mail as we work through 
the Whois problem reports that ICANN sends us. The goal is to verify, 
as a final resort, whether or not the mailing address for a particular 
registrant is valid. Those registrants whose mail comes back as 
undeliverable will typically lose their domain name. We have an entire 
department that deals with these sorts of regulatory requirements.

So, if you question is: does Tucows intend to comply with its 
registrar accreditation agreement and other relevant contracts, the 
answer is an unqualified yes.

On the other hand, if your question is: "If I ran Fraudit against the 
Whois database and gave you a list of domains with potentially 
inaccurate information, would you do anything about it?" my response 
would be quite different.

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                        -rwr








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