RE: [ga] ICANN Board can intervene to stop domain tasting for 1 year

["Nevett, Jonathon" <jnevett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff:

 

Thanks for your comments.  The benefit of our measure to our customers
is that it prevents a Front Runner from registering a domain name in
short order after a customer searches for that name on our site.
Tasters and Front Runners register names only at their affiliated
registrars.  They don't come to Network Solutions to register names.
Therefore, our customers are protected against Tasters who may gain
access to domain name search data.  

 

You are correct that our measure - currently - won't protect a customer
against someone searching for a name and then having a friend or another
party coincidentally registering the same name at Network Solutions
prior to the customer returning to purchase the name.  With that said,
we are looking into developing that kind of capability.

 

Thanks.

 

Jon

 

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From: Neuman, Jeff [mailto:Jeff.Neuman@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 3:36 PM
To: Nevett, Jonathon; Dominik Filipp; George Kirikos; ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ga] ICANN Board can intervene to stop domain tasting for 1
year

 

Jon,

 

How can you ensure that the same customer that performs the search is
the one who is able to register it?  Seems like without that assurance,
there is no protection.  For example, yesterday I did a search on a name
from my computer.  You then "reserved" it.  A friend of mine from a
different location (and network) on his computer was able to register
that name.

 

Please help me understand how that benefited me who did the original
search.  Without that assurance, your mechanism does nothing more than
ensure that someone cannot register that name at another registrar for
the next 4 or 5 days.

 

Tell me where my assumptions are wrong.  I would be happy to reconsider
my opinion.

 

Jeffrey J. Neuman, Esq. 
Sr. Director, Law, Advanced Services  & 

Business Development 

NeuStar, Inc. 
e-mail: Jeff.Neuman@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:Jeff.Neuman@xxxxxxxxxx>