ICANN participation

I have submitted a complaint to Internic about a website using fraudulent registration data in order to conceal the identity of the domain owner/registrant.

Internic didn't bother to communicate with me after I submitted & confirmed my last complaint filed in Oct. 2007. I've refiled a new complaint.

Can anyone give me advice about how I can pursue this matter more vigorously & successfully within ICANN/Internic?

Richard Silverstein
Tikun Olam

richards1052 at comcast dot net

Hello.
My worry is, could an ISP have a better control over the address space given to the end user (CPE)? considering that for a CPE that needs only one and just one link would receive a prefix /64.
My point is that in that condition in a extended period of time result in a waste of IPv6 addresses, despite of the huge address space.

The bottom line: Could the Local ISP offer a fixed prefix like 2001::/96 or /100, to the end user (who have several PCs in the network that need to be reachable from the internet). All of these without going away from the RIR specification for the ISP and keeping routing efficiently and a reduced size of routing table.

Fauchon.biz Domain Status: inactiv???????????????
Who can answer I ask what does this mean «why I can not resolve the domain name»

Domain Name: FAUCHON.BIZ
Domain ID: D20480868-BIZ
Sponsoring Registrar: TODAYNIC.COM INC.
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 697
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited
Domain Status: inactive
Registrant ID: TODAYNIC-2066129
Registrant Name: Duan Zuochun
Registrant Organization: Duan Zuochun
Registrant Address1: XiangzhouquFenghuangLu1113HaoYihuashangyezhongxin905
Registrant City: ZhuHaiShi
Registrant State/Province: GD
Registrant Postal Code: 519000
Registrant Country: China
Registrant Country Code: CN
Registrant Phone Number: +86.13411420698
Registrant Facsimile Number: +86.13411420698
Registrant Email: dxc4444@yahoo.com.cn
Administrative Contact ID: TODAYNIC-2066130
Administrative Contact Name: Duan Zuochun
Administrative Contact Organization: Duan Zuochun
Administrative Contact Address1: XiangzhouquFenghuangLu1113HaoYihuashangyezhongxin905
Administrative Contact City: ZhuHaiShi
Administrative Contact State/Province: GD
Administrative Contact Postal Code: 519000
Administrative Contact Country: China
Administrative Contact Country Code: CN
Administrative Contact Phone Number: +86.13411420698
Administrative Contact Facsimile Number: +86.13411420698
Administrative Contact Email: dxc4444@yahoo.com.cn
Billing Contact ID: TODAYNIC-2066130
Billing Contact Name: Duan Zuochun
Billing Contact Organization: Duan Zuochun
Billing Contact Address1: XiangzhouquFenghuangLu1113HaoYihuashangyezhongxin905
Billing Contact City: ZhuHaiShi
Billing Contact State/Province: GD
Billing Contact Postal Code: 519000
Billing Contact Country: China
Billing Contact Country Code: CN
Billing Contact Phone Number: +86.13411420698
Billing Contact Facsimile Number: +86.13411420698
Billing Contact Email: dxc4444@yahoo.com.cn
Technical Contact ID: TODAYNIC-2066130
Technical Contact Name: Duan Zuochun
Technical Contact Organization: Duan Zuochun
Technical Contact Address1: XiangzhouquFenghuangLu1113HaoYihuashangyezhongxin905
Technical Contact City: ZhuHaiShi
Technical Contact State/Province: GD
Technical Contact Postal Code: 519000
Technical Contact Country: China
Technical Contact Country Code: CN
Technical Contact Phone Number: +86.13411420698
Technical Contact Facsimile Number: +86.13411420698
Technical Contact Email: dxc4444@yahoo.com.cn
Created by Registrar: TODAYNIC.COM INC.
Last Updated by Registrar: TODAYNIC.COM INC.
Domain Registration Date: Tue Oct 02 02:27:15 GMT 2007
Domain Expiration Date: Wed Oct 01 23:59:59 GMT 2008
Domain Last Updated Date: Wed Mar 12 11:11:11 GMT 2008

>>>> Whois database was last updated on: Tue Jul 29 05:20:06 GMT 2008 <<<<
www.dior.in
www.sexhut.cn

I have been the CEO of a small company here in the US for over 15 years. Shorty after going into business, my own name was stolen by an individual who tried to blackmail me. I had to go through the entire process of filing a dispute, but eventually got the name back. I have heard rumors that ICANN will be charging $50,000 for domain registrations. This only benefits the rich and powerful companies that can afford it. This WILL create a disaster for small business, like mine that cannot afford to register my name at that price, even though it is not a common term and is Trademarked here in the US. However, if some large company wants to put me out of business, yes the Internet is now that important, they could. I would either have to pay the $50,000 (which I cannot afford) or take them to court, which would be just as expensive. The solution to this is simple, and I beg ICANN to consider this option: If a company has had a registered domain name, for over a set number of years (3-7 years), and the registered name is the same as the Trademark owned by the company or person, then the company should have the right to register the name under the new gTLD's for a normal fee, not $50k. I am sure ICANN is trying to prevent cyber-squatters and open-up the Internet, not to put people out of business. I do feel however, that such extreme measures, as rumored, will create a nightmare for companies like mine who have worked so hard to protect our name and trademark... and cannot afford to pay such a high fee to protect ourselves from those who have the money to put us under. Warren

In the beginning of the public Internet, over 10 years ago, there existed "guidelines" that one could register a .com domain for a business, a .net domain if the organization was invloved in the Internet infrastructure, and a .org domain for non-profit organizations. Very shortly it became clear that these were not regulations or rules that had to be followed, so they were not followed. People registered .net and .org domains to compete with .com for-profit businesses. Where the owner of the .com domain could, they bought the .net and .org equivalent, but they were not always able to, and often speculators registered the .net and .org equivalent to sell to the .com domain holder. ICANN facilitated all of this by having "guidelines" and "recommendations" - which don't work in the real world - rather than rules and regulations. Then ICANN, over our objections allowed more direct competitors to the .com business website, .biz and .info, to come into existence, so that a .com domain owner now had to spend about $100 to register 6 or 7 other gTLD's of its domain in order to protect its brand, and ensure that the public could find its web site and know tht its web site was the web site it was looking for. Then many country code TLD's (ccTLD's) began to use their domains as gTLD's and to sell them to compete in the .com for-profit space. These include, .bz, .tv, .am, .fm, .us, .cc, .ws, .nu, etc., as well as the many country code top level domains which are used by their national groups, like .fr, .co.uk, .de, .ru, etc. The problem for a domain owner [and I use .com as an example, because it was the original gTLD that was for everyone (except non-profits and internet infrastructure organizations)]; is that there are about 20 or more truly global TLD's in which they must register their domain in order to protect their brand, and to make it clear to the public (the human behind the interent broswer) where their web site is on the internet, and to make it simple to find them, and to alleviate or reduce confusion from similar names. This is becoming very costly, so that instead of one $10 annual fee to register and renew a .com domain, now one has over $200 (and rising, since ICANN ilegally, in our opinion, raised prices and started taxing domains which were already registered) in annual expenses, and with ICANN's current decisions to allow just about any gTLD if the group can afford to pay ICANN's fees and has enough money to hire a DBA to run the domain database and build and maintain a functioning web site, there could soon be hundreds of competing gTLD's. The problem with this is two-fold: 1.) The cost to the individual or little start-up or home based business of maintaining its domain and brand will soon become tens of thousand of dollars or euros a year. Domain prices will average $50 a year in ten or twenty years if ICANN's domain tax and registry price increases on registered domains are not disallowed, as they MUST BE. 2.) Even more importantly, people will not be able to remember which web site they wanted to go to - where they could find what they were looking for - where they wanted to return to. For example, I run a company called LowestPriceDomain.com which has owned that domain for many years. When other gTLD's have arisen, we have tried to buy them, but it is getting expensive, especialy since we only make a gross profit of $0.50 or less on each transaction (each domain sold or renewed or transferred in). It is very expensive to have to register scores or soon hundreds of other gTLD's in this domain name (LowestPriceDomain) in order to protect our brand, and we do not have the money to do so. How will the public be able to differentiate between our site LowestPriceDomain.com and a competitor, who has LowestPriceDomain.store or LowestPriceDomain.shop? Look at the following list and ask yourself how easy or hard it would be for you or the average person to know what exists at each site without trying them all out in your browser (which would take far too long): LowestPriceDomain.com LowestPriceDomain.net LowestPriceDomain.org LowestPriceDomain.biz LowestPriceDomain.info LowestPriceDomain.us LowestPriceDomian.eu LowestPriceDomain.bz LowestPriceDomain.nu LowestPriceDomain.cc LowestPriceDomain.ws LowestPriceDomain.co.uk LowestPriceDomain.fr LowestPriceDomain.tv LowestPriceDomain.de And how about when the following are added as they surely will be if ICANN goes ahead with its gTLD plans: LowestPriceDomain.shop LowestPriceDomain.store LowestPriceDomain.mall LowestPriceDomain.now LowestPriceDomain.yes LowestPriceDomain.oui LowestPriceDomain.si LowestPriceDomain.sim LowestPriceDomain.hot LowestPriceDomain.not LowestPriceDomain.buy LowestPriceDomain.sell LowestPriceDomain.trade LowestPriceDomain.go LowestPriceDomain.up LowestPriceDomain.bus LowestPriceDomain.today LowestPriceDomain.sale LowestPriceDomain.discount LowestPriceDomain.superstore LowestPriceDomain.best LowestPriceDomain.great LowestPriceDomain.cheap LowestPriceDomain.onsale LowestPriceDomain.everyday LowestPriceDomain.tomorrow LowestPriceDomain.yesterday And so on ... it will lead to absolute confusion, and people will not be able to remember one web site from another based on their names. People will not be able to differentiate one web site from another based on their names - and this is a disaster in the making, since we humans use names for everything. We use Language, and by allowing more gTLD's we are creating great confusion in the language of the internet. Search engines will not help us here very much, and it is wrong anyways to allow search engines to have control over a company's brand simply because ICANN and the registries want to make more money each year. We think this whole thing needs to be thought out much more carefully, and that and decision should be not be based on more revenues to ICANN and the registries and the registrars ( i.e., more domains to register, tax, and increase prices on, etc.) as just about all decisions ICANN has made in the past were based on. We are going to lose the ability to easily navigate the Internet with words (names) if we allow ICANN to proceed with this folly. Furthermore, just like ICANN's (illegal, we believe) annual tax on domain names and it's illegal, we believe, approval for the registries to raise renewal fees by 7% a year on domains already registered; the rights of the existing domain holders are being trampelled upon without regards to legality or fairness. Matt Hooker Chairman IDOA.info - Internet Domain Owners Association Protecting Domain Owners Rights and Liberty Globally

I have already made a complaint on this, but there has been no real response yet, except from GoDaddy, which says that they are not going to fix this. The problem is that when I enter my phone number correctly, as +358.5056xxxxx in their contact editing page, it shows as 5056xxxxx in the whois data. There is no way to have the contry code shown, except entering it as +358.3585056xxxxx and even in this case it shows as 3585056xxxxx in the whois data. This is potentially another way for GoDaddy to make contact info invalid, and grab domains from their rightful owners.

You need to do something about Future Media Architects. They have hoarded over 100,00 domain names, has been holding them for over 10 years and have been redirecting to nothing but a single search box on of the links is http://media.com. That means over 99,999 domain names that could be useful aren't being used except to redirect to parked page that's been the same for 10 years. And they will not sell any of them. I know some people may not sell some of their's but I mean come on 100,000 domains he probably doesn't even know what most of them are. The man behind this calls them his masterpieces -- they are not art but the public's things, in a way. I mean it's like somebody walking a up to monument belonging to the public and claiming it as their own and not letting anybody look at it or whatever people do around a monument. I can't do anything because I don't have the ability to. So please ICANN for the sake of the internet community give them back the ability to register useful domain names and look into Future Media Architects. They're crapping up the net.

Are you ready for the future internet? IPv6 and IDNs, that's it.ebpm

Why does ICANN have the 5 day refund policy for registrars?
This is only an invite for domain fishing i.e. register and park domains and keep the ones that get enough type-in traffic to cover the registration fees. An invitation to SPAM in other words.

From a Business Directory owner...

This is not a foum that i have ever encountered, where is the add new post, change your avatar? This seems like a controlled listing of text. So, If it is not. What do you think of ICANN? 0 = Very Poor 10 - Fantastic. Vote now! I would have a vote thing, but this is not a forum.

Hi Im lupael from Bangladesh.Im a student and working in a IT Comp. I want to join in the Meeting held on Paris 2008 . But in my Passport my Profession is STUDENT. so it is possible to get Visa in this Profession? Please inform me at info@lupael.com With thanks Md.Ashik Iqbal Lupael Dhaka Bangladesh Cell: +880 1719 153197 E-mail: info@lupael.com Web: www.lupael.com

I am having a bit of trouble finding webcast and chat links for this week's meeting, any pointers? I have found the media links on the session pages, but where is the info on chat sessions?

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Cheers,

McTim
$ whois -h whois.afrinic.net mctim

If you go to to networksolutions.com and search for a domain name the following will happen:
Within no time networksolutions will have registered that domain themselves, locking you into buying it from them.
Of course it is very overpriced.
That's extremely unfair and is not good practice.
I know that their at this moment is no rule against such bad behavior but ICANN should issue a new policy to solve that, because if any registrar did that...
...and its simply unethical.
Please lets act and stand against that fraudulent behavior.

I came from Pakistan by Bus, is it any arrangements from ICANN or Local Host to Pick me from Arrival point to my hotel and Pick my hotel to Venue.

thks

Why is ICANN not doing anything about "leech" behaviour when it comes to purchasing domain names. I find it really frustrating that aside from companies that actively engage in "front running", there are others who have just snapped up domains in bulk with a view to selling them on for hundreds if not thousands of dollars.

For large corporations this kind of money may not be a problem, however for already financially challenged charities, institutions, health organizations and so on it is impossible to have to submit to such unethical behaviour.

In my view there should be a rule which disallows one to sell a domain for more money then domain names currently sell for. If this is legally not possible, then ICANN should come up with alternatives that address not only future purchases but also domains that have already been snapped up by scrupulous companies. For instance there is no reason why any company or organisation should own hundreds of domains. Similarly any domain owned by a company but not being used in a meaningful manner and only having advertising or domain resell should have their domains forcibly made avilable for sale. Another measure would be domain churn - I suspect that bulk purchasers are buying a selling a lot of domains all the time.

If ICANN does not get tough then there will be no reason for ICANN TO exist. We may as well have chaos like we do today. Perhaps it may be appropriate to also check to see who is represented on ICANN's decision making boards - are these people mostly working for registrars and leech companies - after all it would be in a registrars interest to sell as many domains as possible and so bulk purchases are great for business.

At the end of the day, ICANN should in my view serve the needs of larger society and public. This cannot be achieved if the majority voice in ICANN is from people who have a financial interest in the buy/sell/management of domains.

Dear kieren.mccarthy

pls tell me which meeting is useful to me , e.g i attached icann accredietd Domain Registrar Company. mean to say whic meeting is usefull to attend .

Dear kieren.mccarthy

pls tell me im seeing any meeting or workshop on ccTLDs in the schedule, im interested in ccTLDs. pls explain .

thks

Dear kieren.mccarthy

will you tell me please any last date for registration of Participation of New Delhi Meeting.\

Thks

Rgds

Hello everyone,
I'll be in Delhi until Feb 13th's night. Unfortunately, I won't be able to attend the new gTLD's workshop as, at
that time, I'll be on the plane. Compared to the new
gTLD's workshop in LA meeting, this one won't last too
long (only 1 and 1/2 hours). Do you think there'll be time
for people to make comments, questions,etc?
I would like to post a few comments/questions concerning
the new gTLD's, but I'll be flying at that time. Does
anyone now if it's possible to post a question ahead of
time?
And, last thing, does anyone know if we can attend the
GNSO Council working session on Sunday 10 Feb and the
GNSO Council Meeting on Wednesday 13 Feb?
Thank you!

Hello, im surprised every one can participate in public meeting in New Delhi from any where in the world. Is it true?

Who will be the sponsor of the expenses of accomodation in New Delhi Public Meeting of ICANN

any bod tell me when agenda and meeting schedule is developed and available on site

I found in a blog, and I verified, that networksolusions behave badly. I found no broken rules, so I ask the board to check if ICANN should issue a new consensus policy to solve such missuses.

The problem:

As user I sometime I check from registrar if a domain is available, and only later (maybe after some days) I register it (if it is still available, but usually it is).

But Networksolutions will register the domain few minutes after the check, for one year.

I'm very disappointed about such abuse. I really think that registrar should do fair games on registrar tasks.

Please could someone let me know as to when exactly is the New Delhi Meeting starting? Is it 9th 0r 10th as there are conflicting dates on the website del.icann.org.

Being a student of law my area of interest revovles round UDRP norms. So i wanted to enquire whether the same will be given due attention during this meeting?

I'm a newbie so I hope someone will direct me to the right place. I was wondering if there might be a public forum to discuss issues of registration fraud & how to address it in terms of ICANN. Beyond reporting it to ICANN, I'd like to find out what recourse I might have beyond that, & what ICANN will/can do about it vis a vis the registrar.

Richard Silverstein
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/

Excellent

If you hold a trademark in the domain name, the process you need to be aware of is called UDRP - Uniform Dispute Resolution Process
Now we can communicate in the forum of ICANN

征途私服 志田未来

Hello
I posted here a week ago and my posting has not appeared? Would you be able to look into this please?

Sorry for sending this query as a new posting but I don't see any way of contacting a forum admin.

thanks
Simon Coffey

What would it take to propose and create a new TLD for a region? The European union has .eu In the Caribbean we have both CARICOM and OECS and neither has an allocated 2 letter domain as far as I know.

Hi everybody

I am doing one research above this forum and would you help me?. I have the next question "ICANN corporation considers the ideas presented in this forum?

Estoy participando en una investigacion participante sobre este forum y queria pediros si me podeis contestar la siguiente pregunta: ¿la organizacion ICANN tiene en cuenta las ideas presentadas en este foro?

Regards

jboveb@uoc.edu

Hi to all

That it must make to request a new dominion for a new company? and I must consider that the IP they changed in the future?

Best regards

rogerbosque@terra.es

Does anybody knows how to create a ccTLD Domain? I know that there's a ccTLD for Tokely Islands (in the Pacific), it is www.domainname.tk (you can go to www.dot.tk) . I want to know how to create something like that, for example www.domainname.rj (for Rio de Janeiro, instead .br of Brazil), and all the ccTLD for the region in a country you want. The only limitation could be that the two letters weren't free. Thanks.