-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
Anyone been following the Registerfly fiasco? Since 2000, the ICANN registrar agreement has required registrars to escrow their registrant data according to ICANN's specs. It's been seven years, ICANN is just now sending out an RFP to set up escrow providers, only because they've been shamed into it when people discovered that there were no backups of Registerfly's registrant data.
Yes, it is a pretty sad commentary on ICANN's ability to follow through on policy.
Even if ICANN should try to do this, registrars will push back like crazy since most of them have a minimum price mininum service business model. In retrospect, it was a huge mistake to drop the price and let Verisign and their friends mass merchandise domains as a fashion accessory, but it's much too late to put that genie back in the bottle.
Well, that's a pretty sober commentary unto itself. I ask you: What would you suggest? It's quite hard to craft technical solutions to policy failures. - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.1 (Build 1012) wj8DBQFGVlSiq1pz9mNUZTMRAgTkAKCEw1bovM6kP9BNA+iRlMj54dNaQgCfZXUa twkU7qcLFASkvC1GKoQFFjo= =7/bs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/