Re: Cobaltracks was RE: [cobalt-users] should I buy into RaQ3

[baltimoremd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Carrie Bartkowiak wrote:

> I abhor NS with every fiber of my being.

Now that we know about the secret love affair, you might be interested
in:

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NETWORK SOLUTIONS (VERISIGN) - THE REGISTRY
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Has stopped dropping expired names into the available names pool. With
claims
of excessive use during drops periods exceeded capacities, Network
Solutions has
effective immediately ceased all expired name drops. Names will STILL
expire as
normal however, they will remain in the registry until they devise a new
scheme 
for the release of these names.

Dropped names are usually reregistered for the purpose of reselling the
name, either
to the original registrant, or to a new party who may have been interested
in the name.

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DOMAIN TRANSFERS
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Network Solutions (as losing registrar) has taken it upon itself to
disrupt the transfer 
procedure. They send their confirmation email to the listed admin contact,
which you
must reply to in order for the transfer to be completed.

Which in theory would work, IF, you received the email, OR, their systems
would
acknowledge a positive response. ie:YES, transfer it.

There have been many cases of denied transfer requests due to their
claimed non-reply to
their email, when in fact the client has replied.

In accordance with the rules for transfer, the losing registrar cannot
require the client
to acknowledge the confirmation email. An unanswered acknowledgement is to
result
in a transfer being completed. The purpose of the acknowledgement email is
for the
domain holder to be able to determine , if they DID NOT initiate the
transfer to be able
to explicity deny the request. Nothing more. However, certain registrars,
Network Solutions
being the most predominant have rewritten the rules in their favor.

In many instances entered for transfer within 45 days of expiring, are
also
denied for "invoice outstanding". This was an old game they used, which
seems to have
reaered its ugly head again.

ICANN has been advised of this problem, but yet seemingly have done
nothing to address
the problem.



thom

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