-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On 06-Jan-00 Ron Bennett wrote: > The article doesn't surprise me, but was happily surprised > to see the "races.com" domain transfer situation mentioned. > > If ICANN can revoke 845 domains, why can't they fix ONE simple > mistake - NSI knows they messed up the "races.com" transfer, > the current "bogus" owner knows the domain really shouldn't be > his, and Register.com knows what they're doing is wrong - so it > seems to me if ICANN (or more to the point NSI Registry) is going > to revoke 845 domains, they ought to damn well revoke the > "races.com" domain registration and allow NSI Registrar to > assign it to John McLanahan like they were supposed to. > They're revoking a group of domain names citing a dumbass reason that only applies to a few of them. They say it's to clamp down on cybersquatting because these names are passing off on trademarks. None of my domains in this batch are passing off on anybody else's trademark and yet, that's the reason that's going to be cited when they yank my domain names. Based on the logic cited in this article I now expect microsoftnet.com, yahoonet.com and amazonnet.com and all other domain names that are "nearly identical to already established web sites" to be arbitrarily revoked. I had a feeling they would be pulled and I suspected the reason cited would be an ignorant insult to my intelligence and I was right. The simple fact is the registry FUCKED UP and so did the registrars. If they came out and said, "these domains were registered as the result of a mistake on our end, which i now fixed, and we're pulling these names" I would have less of a problem with it, than now, where I'm being tacitly accused of being a cybersquatter just because I hold a few of these domain names. Not impressed one bit. - -mark - --- |||| mark jeftovic (MJ177) ==== http://stuntpope.cyberpunk.cc/ |||| |||| easyDNS Technologies Inc. ==== http://www.easyDNS.com/ |||| - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ dns hosting / domain registrations / web forwarding / mail forwarding / etc - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOHPq7TPrBBih4SmVAQE1tAP8CzA+yGeInD/fNF4qA7jXJVnmoGl8whGp C0xGdYmaP6FR+d22TPKXMMTdRGHk9G/j/CNnJcDQENhRQmYqTxHIzbmdwYPnUEem ISCRytMwMhheto/ANNZq4RvYT0lFOXxPtFb0Pnku+beSQiOA6hxuCMBUqV2/TIQD Dx49P5qwn38= =99yj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
