Comments on: Prevent another Parava By Mining Domain Registry Reports

By: Patrick Mevzek

Patrick Mevzek — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:39:30 +0000

If anyone want to provide ideas to other graphs/tables to generate from ICANN registries reports than those I already do on http://www.dotandco.net/ressources/icann_registries/ and http://www.dotandco.net/ressources/icann_registrars/ feel free to let me know, with some outside help I would be happy to see what is possible to do that could be helpful to the public.

By: Michele

Michele — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:35:27 +0000

@Andrew

ICANN compliance has been doing a lot in recent months to ensure that registrars are compliant with existing contracts.

By: mansour

mansour — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:59:33 +0000

Andrew, I agree with you. Your point is well taken.

All registrars should provide proof to their customers that their business is sound, especially the top ten registrars, not by offering discounted domain registration, or advertising, but rather through a statement of profitability in their business. I do not wish to place my domain names in the hands of a registrar that is a few million dollars in debt, even if they are offering domain registration and renewal below cost. I own over 2600 domain names and I can only trust Tucows since they are a public company and I can find out their financial stability the same as their investors. It is very easy for any registrar to spend the money they have collected for up to 10 years in advance, and no one knows if they will still be in existence 10 years from now. The fall of Register fly was a wakeup call for many domainers to search for a safe place to keep their domain names. I disagree with you that no registrar offers a discount for multiple years of registration. Godaddy is your biggest example.

By: Andrew Allemann

Andrew Allemann — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:58:50 +0000

@ Antony – I have a better idea. ICANN could take just a tiny sliver of the $10M+ it has spent on a current project to make itself bigger and more important and spend that on doing its job correctly; i.e. ensuring compliance with it’s existing contracts

By: John Berryhill

John Berryhill — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:02:27 +0000

There has been an ongoing incident in which InternetX renewed and/or registered a number of domain names based on fees collected by one of their resellers, and the reseller subsequently absconded with the money.

InternetX has taken the position that since they did not receive the payment from their own reseller, that the domain registrants need to pay again, to InternetX directly.

Accordingly, that is another registrar to keep an eye on, as they have stated they will be deleted a number of domain names prior to the registry expiration date.

By: jorge

jorge — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:21:01 +0000

Great idea. Sounds like a fun project.

By: Michele

Michele — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:17:42 +0000

ICANN and its staff has enough to do already.

If there is an issue with a registrar not renewing domains etc., then submit a complaint and ICANN Compliance can take action, but expecting ICANN to do this in not reasonable.

As Antony said, a journalist would be in a better position to do it.

Michele