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Re: [ga] domain tasting comments

  • To: debbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Subject: Re: [ga] domain tasting comments
  • From: Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:27:51 -0700


Debbie Garside wrote:

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.

There is an interesting twist on this:

In its contracts with registrars ICANN denies third party beneficiary status to registrants. This means that if those contracts are violated that only ICANN has standing to go into court and enforce the terms.

Thus if a registrar were to refuse to provide 5 day AGP to a registrant who made a real, legitimate mistake, then that person would have no recourse for that breech of the contractual term and would have to wait for ICANN to step in, if ever.

Given that ICANN has been rather lax about keelhauling registrars - it took a RegisterFly disaster to get ICANN to act last time - a registrar could decide that it could ignore its contractual obligations, such as AGP, with, as a practical matter, impunity.

                --karl--






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