Personally I think your issue may be even easier to address and it currently exists: domain *AUTHORIZATION CODES*.
.Info and .Biz use it and it works just fine. I know that NSI is a fox guarding the hen house, but with auth codes the losing registrar has *PROOF* the owner was involved in the transfer process. That is not currently the case.
Of course NSI will have to be dragged kicking and screaming before they will ever consider such a thing. They prefer the deception of a "waiting period" .......
Charles
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:49:39 -0700
"Dave Warren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes spammers will in the end get email addresses. But I firmlyMake it a registry command, each registrar can query the registry for the
> believe there is more than enough intelectual horsepower among the
> internet community to come up with a way to make whois mining
> intractable .....
Maybe:
- for "anonymous" users, limit the number of WHOIS requests to a very
small number / IP / day, and change e-mail addresses to ****@domain
- for "trusted" users (well, it is hard to define this... maybe this
one is not needed at all), limit the number of WHOIS requests from
the same user/day, and include e-mail addresses in the response
administrative and technical contact information. The registry will then
query the registrar of record, and if the registrar fails to provide a
response they are billed $100 and the original registry is notified to try
again ASAP.
After that, if GoDaddy doesn't want to return email addresses, it's their
own call. At $100 per bogus answer, I bet they'll decide they'd rather lose
the domain then pay $100 every few seconds.
What will be done with the money? I'm thinking third world countries, local
charities, whatever. Nobody profits, this is just designed to be an
asskicking for those that don't play by the rules.
Exceptions will be made for scheduled system outages, within a reasonable
SLA. Exceptions will also be made for honest accidental outages, but again,
within a reasonable SLA. You can't be down 23 hours and 59 minutes per day
every day, or for any excessive period of time.
Lastly, I'd like to see a cost imposed on the registrar if they choose to
DAK a transfer unless they have disabled the domain IN ADVANCE. By disabled
the domain, I'm talking a full lock, NS dropped from the roots and
everything. This is intended to prevent a registrar like NetSol from
denying transfers left right and center on their own. In order for this to
work, there would have to be some way for the end user to DAK without the
registrar incurring a fee, this would get a bit more complex in a thin
registry, but could be workable.
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I used to be indecisive, now I'm not so sure.
