[registrars] Continued domain adds and deletes

[dwascheriar]

There is teeth in the contract with Verisign to shut this down. We were!
What seems to be going on is the something that we were asked to do in
registering several thousand domains which are then put into DNS and tested
for hits. Domains that receive some percentage of hits are kept and the rest
are deleted before the 120 hours for credit.

Verisign did send out a "C/D" order identifying 2 issues. The first was the
in the R&R 3.2 (ii) even after we slowed the process down it was still
considered "Unreasonable". The other was taking advantage of the 120 grace
period. The mass deletes was causing there internal audit processes to slow
down.

So if Verisign wants to they can shutdown the connection using the section
3.2.

David Wascher
The Registry at Info Avenue

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registrars at gnso.icann.org
> [mailto:owner-registrars at gnso.icann.org]On Behalf Of Jay Westerdal
> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 4:08 PM
> To: 'Bhavin Turakhia'; 'Registrars Constituency'
> Subject: RE: [registrars] Continued domain adds and deletes
>
>
> Abuse stopped on the 18th. But then on the 24th they started again using a
> different set of name servers to try and hide the situation. Another 20K
> registrations in one day. They could be be doing more but I only poked my
> head inside the data for about 2 minutes.
>
> I am not sure ICANN or Verisign will do be able to do anything about this.
> There is no teeth in the contract in enforce any type of abuse like this.
> The Registrars would need to pass a motion and have the board
> institute it.
>
> Jay Westerdal
> Name Intelligence, Inc.
> http://www.nameintelligence.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registrars at gnso.icann.org
> [mailto:owner-registrars at gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Bhavin Turakhia
> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 11:22 AM
> To: 'Registrars Constituency'
> Cc: 'Jay Westerdal'
> Subject: [registrars] Continued domain adds and deletes
>
>
> Hi,
>
> We had some discussions about the abuse of the add grace period by some
> registrars (I think some stats on itsyourdomain.com were published)
>
> I will be talking to icann in a bit about some aspects on this issue. Does
> this abuse still continue? Jay do you have stats at hand for the last 'x'
> days for registrars where we see this behaviour?
>
> Best Regards
> Bhavin Turakhia
> Founder, CEO and Chairman
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