RE: [ga] Kamusi.com Domain

[Hugh Dierker <hdierker2204@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well this email settles everything. Personally I try (often fail) to lead most 
of my days by doing things that cause no harm to others. GoDaddy is in a very 
competitive game/business of making money. I imagine they usually try(often 
fail) to lead most of their days by doing things that make and then save money 
and then pass it on to investors. Hopefully they start each day figuring how 
they can do no harm to their investors.
 
It looks like all the held names were triggered by registrants. It would also 
appear that most of these registrants are probably in the mass registration 
speculation arena. So it would appear that the DBP operates on the profit 
margins dropped by the greedy. Kinda like those 49ers that tunneled under 
saloons to get the gold that slipped through the cracks/floorboards into the 
muck and myre.
 
While there is elsewhere a continuing debate regarding users vs. registrant 
constituencies this here seems to make the case for the immediate need of a 
users constituency. One has to ask though, Who is entitled to profit from the 
waste of another's greed? But I feel quite confident the reason ICANN does 
nothing about this process is that it is technically neither warehousing nor 
cybersquatting. It also technically appears to produce millions of yen.

--- On Thu, 1/22/09, Tim Ruiz <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Tim Ruiz <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [ga] Kamusi.com Domain
To: "Debbie Garside" <debbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thursday, January 22, 2009, 11:51 AM

Hi Debbie. FWIW,

GoDaddy.com is not cybersquatting. Domains By Proxy is an affiliate of
GoDaddy.com, but provides its own customer support. This is no secret
and is a fact we have been clear about in public and with ICANN. We
offer Domains by proxy's private registration services at GoDaddy.com
just like we offer any of our other products and services:
http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/dbp/landing.asp
 
Domains By Proxy (DBP) was formed in response to customer demand for
privacy.  When a GoDaddy.com customer is registering a domain name, they
may select the DBP service. DBP then becomes the registrant of record
and DBP's contact information is used for the public Whois database. DBP
then enters into a separate agreement with the customer wherein the
customer retains all rights of domain name ownership.  If the customer
should ever desire to become the actual registrant of the name, they
simply have to cancel their DBP service and they automatically become
the registrant of record. This is a part of every DBP customer
agreement. In addition, DBP's agreement with its customers is also very
strict regarding Spam, IP infringement, and other illegal acts:
http://www.domainsbyproxy.com/LegalAgreement.aspx
 
You should know that Go Daddy has no more interest in a name registered
privately through DBP than it does any other non-private domain name
registration.

Best regards,
Tim Ruiz
Vice President
Corp. Development & Policy
The Go Daddy Group, Inc.

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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [ga] Kamusi.com Domain
From: "Debbie Garside" <debbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, January 21, 2009 11:14 am
To: <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Hi

As many of you know, The Kamusi Project is under the umbrella of the
World
Language Documentation Centre.

It would appear that http://www.kamusi.com was purchased at around the
time
that the Director of the Kamusi Project started investigating domain
names
(1997). It has had a holding page up for longer than the Director can
remember.

These links make interesting reading:

http://kamusi.org/en/new_domain_name

http://whois.domaintools.com/kamusi.com

Can anyone shed any light on whether GoDaddy (or a subsidiary) are
cybersquatting 7 million names as reported?

Thanks

Debbie Garside
Chief Executive Officer

PS Kamusi is Swahili for dictionary

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