ICANN participation

The factions of the ruling Social Democrats (SPD) and Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) in the German Parliament have submitted the resolution "Advancement of the adress space in the Internet" (printed paper no. 16/4564; courtesy translation) to the plenary on March 7. In it, the federal government is called upon to support new developments in the Internet name space.

I got notice yesterday evening of a class action brought to in a US Court against RF, eNom and ICANN.

Although I can understand why the plaintiff is naming eNom and ICANN ( though i don't think that she will succeed in demonstrating that there were illegal conduct from both ) it is somewhat baffling why some other registrars and registries are left alone from this action.

On the process of trying to solve the problem ICANN stated that it had come to an agreement with the registries (all? some of them?) so domains would not be lost.

April 1 2007. there is much to do.
April 4 2007. escalated effort. results nill./
April 10 2007 - no results.
All contact touchpoints have been used.
-- Registerfly Specific Account Support Tickets
-- Compliance@Icann.org email access point
-- Transfer-questions@icann.org email access point
Note: registerapi processing is slow.
Note: Same Transfer rejection Melbourne IT.

I would like, for this short timeframe only and specific to Registerfly only transfer-away processing, to have ICANN INSTRUCT ALL ITS REGISTRARS to ACCEPT RRP as a VALID EPP AUTHCODE to allow transfer-away from registerfly and into a new Registrar by a logged in and verified account holder. In many cases the account verification gets done but the Authcode stops the process.

Two day ago I received an email from eNom with an update for the reseller API.

Guess what? The new function implements something in the line of syncing the auth code with the registry.

Now this triggers something in my mind. If the auth key needs to be check by the gaining registrar to whom does it turns for confirmation of the EPP key? The registry? The losing registrar? What if their values are not in sync?

Again this whole EPP key process seems awkward. Again it looks far more simpler if it was the registrant the one with the key in hand ( and store it at registry level ).

Well i couldn't make it to Lisbon today... :-(

But would like to share my 2 cents on this

I'm really not against domain tasting de per se.

What really annoys me is the abuse some regsitrars make of their status. I thinks it's quite clear that some have just been created for the sole purpose of speculation on domain name trade. By using their registrar staus they are doing their dirty tricks for free.