[registrars] An Opportunity to Prove A Point - Hi-Jacked Name At GoDaddy

[Ross Rader]

On Feb 22, 2008, at 9:38 AM, John Berryhill wrote:

> Having to chase hi-jacked domains name hither and yon,
> suggests that there needs to be a balance between a distributed
> inconvenience for many, versus a catastrophic event for a few.

I agree fully John, but the complexity associated with "chasing  
domains" is largely fabricated by our industry. The names aren't being  
smuggled in the trunk of a car on the back of a freighter to some  
foreign port. They are a record in a database. I can't believe that  
ten years later, we're still settling with the fingerpointing  
associated with re-patriating names to their rightful owners in cases  
where hijackings have actually taken place.

It shouldn't matter how many registrars the name has been transferred  
to or how many admin or registrant contact changes a name has gone  
through post transfer. What matters is what happened in the first case  
- and if the transfer was fraudulent - i.e. the registrant didn't  
approve of it, then the entire chain of subsequent events should be  
completely irrelevent. For some reason, the industry seems to have  
settled on the more complex condition. Baffling to me why.

-ross