RE: [registrars] Nomination of Jay Westerdal for RC Treasurer

["Jay Westerdal" <jwesterdal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Elliot,
All of us generate revenue from our accreditation in different ways.
We all have different business models.

Name Intelligence got accredited due to Afilias's whois system.
Afilias explained to us that they have no relationship with our
company and that we were outside of the scope of their company
contract with ICANN. Even though they like our stats they can
not pick and choose who to help or allow us selected access to
a thin whois with only registrar of record. They can't even
release stats themselves, that is why our company feels it is
important to collect these stats. The contract they have with
ICANN has several hundred pages and didn't allow them to pick and
choose who they enforced whois query limits on. The one field we
needed from Afilias was the Registrar of record for the domain.
Registries with thin whois have no problem giving this information
out, but companies with thick whois have more fields to protect
and stronger and longer contracts with ICANN. With EPP access it
allows us a thinner view and tells us who the Registrar is. Our
Name Suggestion technology and Registrar Stats require access to
find out the status of the domain and who the registrar is.

ICANN doesn't have a system for companies that don't fit inside the
box. So instead of waiting for ICANN to define more boxes we decided
to jump inside the box; the ICANN box that best fit us was the
Registrar box since that gave us access so that we could continue to
report statistics on .INFO and .ORG (run by Afilias) TLDs.

I see no conflict with the issue of threads, and I think if you
want to make it an issue. That to be fair we should ask any question
to all applicants of any position in the RC not just one. Many
registrar also generates revenue in other ways from its threads.
Many do. For example, at whois-search.com/deleting/who.php
it shows that BulkRegister (Donna) sell/rent threads to SnapNames.

Yes, Name Intelligence has made the decision to outsource its threads.
Sorry for the long answer to a simple question but I hope I answered
your question and maybe some of the thoughts behind your question. :)

Best Regards,

Jay Westerdal
Name Intelligence, Inc.
http://www.nameintelligence.com/

-----Original Message-----
From: elliot noss [mailto:enoss@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 9:31 AM
To: Jay Westerdal
Cc: registrars@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [registrars] Nomination of Jay Westerdal for RC Treasurer


Do you sell/rent your threads to another company? We don't care about
who or how much.

Regards

Jay Westerdal wrote:

> I accept the nomination, and if elected I will gladly serve.
>
> I am a representative for Name Intelligence.  I started working with the
> domain industry in 1998 with Interland, Inc. as head of domain
> registrations. In 2001, I left Interland and started Name Intelligence.
Name
> Intelligence works to create Registrar service. Name Intelligence list of
> Registrars using our services is available on our home page at
> http://www.nameintelligence.com  In December of 2003, Name Intelligence
was
> accredited by ICANN as a Registrar. We are not the typical Registrar, we
> mostly use our EPP and RRP access so that we can design Registrar
services.
>
> I am not associated with any Registry and have no conflict of interest
which
> would preclude me from this position.
>
> Jay Westerdal
> Name Intelligence, Inc.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Elana Broitman
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 6:02 AM
> To: Bhavin Turakhia; Tim Ruiz; Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine;
> registrars@xxxxxxxx
> Cc: Divyank Turakhia
> Subject: RE: [registrars] Nomination of Jay Westerdal for RC Treasurer
>
>
> We how have a second nomination for Treasurer - Jay, please provide a
> statement of conflict of interest and accept if you are interested.
>
> Thanks
>
> Elana Broitman
> Register.com
> 575 Eighth Avenue
> New York, NY 10018
> Phone (212) 798-9215
>
>>EFax  (800) 886-2716
>
> Fax   (212) 629-9309
> ebroitman@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Bhavin Turakhia
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 3:48 AM
> To: 'Tim Ruiz'; 'Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine';
> registrars@xxxxxxxx
> Cc: 'Divyank Turakhia'
> Subject: RE: [registrars] Nomination of Jay Westerdal for RC Treasurer
>
>
>
> I support Jays nomination too ....
>
> - bhavin
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>[mailto:owner-registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tim Ruiz
>>Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 5:39 AM
>>To: 'Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine'; registrars@xxxxxxxx
>>Subject: RE: [registrars] Nomination of Jay Westerdal for RC Treasurer
>>
>>
>>I second this nomination of Jay Westerdal.
>>
>>Tim Ruiz
>>Go Daddy Software, Inc.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>[mailto:owner-registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Eric
>>Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
>>Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 10:30 AM
>>To: registrars@xxxxxxxx
>>Subject: [registrars] Nomination of Jay Westerdal for RC Treasurer
>>
>>I nominate Jay Westerdal for RC Treasurer.
>>
>>
>
>


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Elliot Noss
Tucows Inc.
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