Comments on: Domain Registrar eNom Sued. Here’s My Take.

By: vCamera

vCamera — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:16:26 +0000

it’s 2w

hi greeting good afternoon ,

we have some very-serious issues with eNom ,

could any1 tell us
the email’s-address or
the phone’s-# of top-managements of eNom ??
??

our e-mail : fourcharities at hotmail.com

cheers thank ye

By: Andrew Allemann

Andrew Allemann — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:26:43 +0000

@ Vikz – nope, the agreement signed between Bridgers and Georgevich is a simple one paragraph agreement. It just has Bridgers assigning ownership to Geogevich. It’s not a contract, as it doesn’t include any sort of consideration in it.

By: Vikz

Vikz — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:50:17 +0000

Any idea how much William Georgevich claims he paid Janet Bridgers for the domain before she resold it?

By: Domain Investor

Domain Investor — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:49:58 +0000

Enom is very sloppy about updating whois.
But, the responsibility falls back onto the domain owner to keep their whois up to date.

I’m sure Enom’s TOS will release them from any legal exposure.

The 2nd owner made a mistake by not properly updating his whois.

I speculate the first owner thought she would get away with re-selling it.

Godfrey bought detox.org too cheap.
I guess the first owner didn’t care.

Godfrey got lucky.
Godfrey’s profit could have been eaten up by a long, drawn out lawsuit.

Is the original owner located in the U.S.?
That might be why she is not being sued.

The only people who will make out on this lawsuit with be the lawyers.

By: George Kirikos

George Kirikos — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:11:10 +0000

That’s true, enoss. But, for sophisticated domain registrants with valuable domains (a minority of the entire population of registrants), that isn’t as pressing (they tend to keep all their domains at a single trusted registrar, like Tucows in my case). The greater fear is that someone does some kind of hack attack at the registrar, or hacks a registrant’s admin email account, or uses some form of social engineering to wreak havoc on a domain. If one raises the bar substantially, so that there’s out-of-band communication required to make certain important changes (e.g. change of registrant, change of registrar or change of nameservers) for the “important” domains, the hackers will probably move on to someone else who’s an easier target.

Hopefully the registrars and the public will push back against the new monopoly pricing powers that VeriSign gets with these new services (there should still be time to affect the outcome, as changes to dot-com must be approved by the Department of Commerce).

By: enoss

enoss — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:32:00 +0000

be careful of “stronger overall registry/registrar security”. it is most often used to rationalize transfer restrictions.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:34:46 +0000

I do not think that Georgevich would have any chance of winning against Enom. The transfer system is fully automated and when the transfer take place, Enom was not even aware nor are they in any position to prevent. IT all lays in the domain registrant that has access to the Domain. Georgevich should sue Janet Bridgers.