I agree that 15 days is not reasonable. I believe that the policy of Verisign and other Registrars not releasing expired domains is more of a problem than the Whois information not being accurate. Why hasn't anything ever been done about this problem?
It would be nice if it was accurate but it should require a registered letter before the domain could be deleted. Place it on hold after 15 days, delete after three months if there is no response to a registered letter. Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Kirikos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 4:15 AM Subject: WHOIS accuracy, and name deletions > Hello, > > Folks might not be aware of discussions going on in the WHOIS accuracy > task force of the DNSO/GNSO. See: > > http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/nc-whois/Arc00/msg00806.html > > for instance. > > Am I the only one who is concerned that a legitimately held name might > be deleted due to a simple failure to respond within 15 days? Given the > amount of spam out there (it's easy to accidentally skip over an email, > thinking it was spam), and lack of guaranteed delivery of email, I > think that this is a very dangerous and poorly thought-out proposal for > legitimate domain holders, especially those with small staffs (or > self-employed). I am all for WHOIS accuracy (it helps to promote > responsible internet usage, and reduce abuse behaviour), but there > needs to be some balance in that proposal. If someone goes on holidays > for 3 weeks, or misses an email, conceivably they could find all their > valuable domains are no longer held by them! > > I would hope that OpenSRS and other leading registrars would implement > a "white-list" (where domain WHOIS is permanently marked as "accurate", > or if not permanent than for long intervals of months, not days) of > protected names, or other mechanisms to ensure that legitimate and > correct domains are not hijacked through misuse of this policy, and > that domains are protected. "Rogue" domain holders, with obviously fake > WHOIS should be pursued, but legitimate holders should be protected. > > If AT&T, AOL, Google or another elite company moves its offices, and > happens to not update their WHOIS records for a few weeks, should they > lose *all* of their domains? Obviously not...they have the lawyers (and > trademarks) to ensure that they'd get back any domain name that their > registrar deletes, but smaller companies do not! > > Every summer, a lot of people move to new homes or apartments -- should > they all be rushing to change their WHOIS the exact moment they move, > or fear losing all their domain names? > > Sincerely, > > George Kirikos > http://www.kirikos.com/
