Re: [ga] Leasing out ICANN Accreditations

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andy and all,

 I personally never trusted ICANN's "Accreditation" policy
and likely never will.  But of course your point is well made.
Microsoft years before ICANN even existed proved self
Accreditation is a very slippery slope.  Why the than ICANN
Bod and DOC/NTIA did not learn from that well known
MS lesson, remains a mystery to me.

 From where I sit, as well as most of our members sit as well,
the RegistryFly disaster is ICANN's Accreditation Hiroshima.
It is also a stain on DOC/NTIA, and will be remembered as
such for years to come.

  I further suspect that the RegistryFly disaster has yet to
be fully realized in terms of ecommerce damage, reputational
damage to ICANN, DOC/NTIA, and to American economic
standing all over the globe.

Andy Gardner wrote:

> But then again, if you'd previously put your trust in ICANN-
> accredited registerfly.com, you might be well served by ensuring your
> registrar was someone subjected to a bit more than ICANN's failed
> attempts at oversight - yourself.
>
> On Jun 20, 2007, at 11:50 PM, Jeff Williams wrote:
>
> > Danny and all,
> >
> >   This is a bad and distrustful move, but it comes as no surprise
> > to me.
> >
> > Danny Younger wrote:
> >
> >> http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=2556F507-C9D9-418A-
> >> B4A8-C460D58F75C0
> >>
> >> [excerpt] "To electronically interact directly with a
> >> registry like VeriSign, a company needs to have an
> >> accreditation from the Internet Corporation for
> >> Assigned Names and Numbers. This involves a lot of
> >> paperwork and systems design, as well as up-front and
> >> ongoing fees and costs.
> >>
> >> MyRebel intends to cut through this barrier to entry
> >> by leasing out its own ICANN accreditations to its
> >> customers. Each accreditation entitles the owner to a
> >> a business relationship with the registry companies
> >> and a fixed number of simultaneous connections to the
> >> registry's servers.
> >>
> >> Momentous.ca owns about 100 accredited registrars,
> >> essentially paper companies used by its Pool.com
> >> subsidiary to rapidly re-register expiring domains.
> >> MyRebel.com would see Momentous share these
> >> accreditations with its high-volume domainer
> >> customers."
> >>
> >>
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> >
> > Regards,
> >
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Regards,
--
Jeffrey A. Williams
Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 134k members/stakeholders strong!)
"Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" -
   Abraham Lincoln

"Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is
very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt

"If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B;
liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by
P: i.e., whether B is less than PL."
United States v. Carroll Towing  (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947]
===============================================================
Updated 1/26/04
CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security
IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng.  INEG. INC.
ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402
E-Mail jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
 Registered Email addr with the USPS
Contact Number: 214-244-4827