On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It is very true. The OpenSRS notice is not now nor has it ever been an > authoritive or required or even optional notice. In fact, it didn't even > exist for quite a while. ICANN requires that the gaining registrar get > authoritive permission of the registrant. If the gaining registrar > doesn't follow through with the requirements, then they should be reported > to ICANN.
Well, checking the one I did save, in Sept of 2002 register.com initiated a transfer of a customer's domain to them without asking first, and if not for the OpenSRS message it would have gone through. So while it may be true that the OpenSRS message isn't authoratative, it is NOT true that when it comes, the end user has approved it. This particular transfer was for a domain owned by a very technical, personal friend who if he says he never approved a transfer to register.com, didn't. ========================================================== Chris Candreva -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- (914) 967-7816 WestNet Internet Services of Westchester http://www.westnet.com/
