Re: [ga] Important New Ruling

[Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Danny Younger wrote:
> "A company cannot change its contract with consumers
> simply by posting revised conditions on its website, a
> US appeals court has ruled" -- 
>
> full story here: 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/26/online_contract_changes/
>
> Court decision here: 
> http://pub.bna.com/eclr/0675424_071807.pdf
>
> As I read it, this ruling should impact registrar
> Terms of Service Agreements.    

Don't read what isn't there.  This was a decision that is quite 
dependent on the law of the particular jurisdictions involved.

I only skimmed the opinion, but much seemed to involve the lack of 
notice.  A registrar might be able to avoid this problem simply by 
sending a notice via an email to one of the registration contacts or by 
setting up an RSS feed and requiring registrants to monitor it.

In fact, one thing that ICANN could set up is an aggegator (serving as a 
kind of gazette of notices) for registrar announcements.

		--karl--