Re: [ga] GoDaddy VP Caught Bidding Against Customers

[Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>]

Re:  So, of course, the solution is to invite even more looters to the party, 
right Danny?

The solution is draft better contracts and to rigorously enforce those 
contracts.  

With that said, the published proposed amendments to the RAA are wholly 
inadequate as (1) they fail to deal with all the primary concerns raised during 
the RegisterFly meltdown and (2) they fail to tighten up language in key 
clauses such as 3.7.8.  ...but I'll post my comments on this topic in detail to 
the RAA Forum during the next month.

Enforcement is the primary concern.  We see, for example, that dotforce.com was 
deaccredited on 11-14-2007 and yet they still display the ICANN accredited logo 
 -- see 
http://www.dotandco.net/ressources/icann_registrars/dates/deaccreditation.en+dotforce+deaccredited&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

We see that bestregistrar.com was also de-accredited and yet their Terms of 
Service agreement still reads "BestRegistrar.com and CORE are accredited 
registrars with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers 
("ICANN") under an agreement with ICANN ("ICANN Agreement")".

Trade Associations have a real problem disciplining their members.  By all 
indications ICANN has become the guild manager of a registry/registrar trade 
association.