Re: [ga] RE: Domain seller leaves thousands in limbo

["Richard Henderson" <richardhenderson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good points about policy regarding escrow. With regard to losing the domains
if they are not notified, what happens with .uk is that BEFORE expiry date
the registrar is supposed to notify the registrant of the need for renewal.
AFTER expiry date, Nominet the registry also notifies the registrant a
number of times that the name has expired. So there should be no need to
lose the domains, even if the registrar goes belly-up.

And as I said, there is no problem transferring your domains to a different
registrar if you are worried at all - because Nominet can and does "force"
the transfer to a new registrar. So if I had registered domains with
Firevision, I cannot see how I would lose those domains (though I would be
faced with the same inconvenience that any company liquidation can cause). I
think the .uk processes work in this scenario. Do gTLD registries have a
similar capability to "rescue" the registrant?

Richard

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Richard Henderson" <richardhenderson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Danny Younger" <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>; "Vinton G. Cerf"
<vinton.g.cerf@xxxxxxx>; <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: [ga] RE: Domain seller leaves thousands in limbo


> Richard and all former DNSO GA members or other interested
> stakeholders/users,
>
>   In part you miss the point/problem here.  That being that does or does
> not
> ICANN have the ability to enforce escrow policy as it now stands?  And
> how will the do so?  In addition, will or does such enforcement only
> provide
> a remedy of discrediting Firevision, as well will all of the Firevision
> registrants be made aware of Firevision receivership?  And finally,
> if escrow is not in place or the data backed-up is too old, will
> Firevision's
> registrants whom are not aware of the problem, loose their domain
> names?