which brings us back to my original comment: "we need a policy most likely from ICANN that requires some action based on proper documentation and evidence or wrong-doing/malfeasance. That policy needs to dictate some monetary penalties for non-compliance."
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. 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. 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. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.