Re: [ga] domain tasting comments

["Elisabeth Porteneuve" <elisabeth.porteneuve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <chris@xxxxxx>
To: "Roberto Gaetano" <roberto@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "'GA'" <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: [ga] domain tasting comments


> It is not clearly stated at registrars during registration that the 
> customer has 5 days in which they are allowed to change their mind about 
> the domain name they are registering.
--
Roberto, All,

Do you remember one of main reasons to set up ICANN?

Under historic pre-ICANN rules people could register number of domain names 
without actually paying them, they had 30 days "grace period". It allowed 
for terrible speculations, WIPO was screaming, VeriSign (actually NetSol at 
that time) was not happy either.
The White Paper http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/6_5_98dns.htm 
recorded it:
"Further, the U.S. Government recommends that the new corporation adopt 
policies whereby:
1) Domain registrants pay registration fees at the time of registration or 
renewal and agree to submit infringing domain names to the authority of a 
court of law in the jurisdiction in which the registry, registry database, 
registrar, or the "A" root servers are located."
I do not know when AGP sneaked into gTLD rules, but from what I see now we 
are back at square one today: 5 days in 2008 or 30 days 10 years ago, no 
difference.
I also carefully noted that Ross Rader said 1 days is sufficient for him to 
fix registrar's mistake.
Elisabeth