Submitted by ASN5 on Thu, 08 November 2007 - 18:14

Registrar Hijacking of Expired Domain Names

By changing the Registered Name Holder's contact information, registrars are able to stifle any effort by the public to contact a registrant about their expiring domain name - preventing registrant from benefiting from the sale of rights to the domain name. And that's just the beginning! Learn more here:

http://whoshouldbe.com/examples.php

Comments

What is ICANN doing about Registrars reselling expired domains?

Submitted by Aborcea on Mon, 24 November 2008 - 16:42.

I've seen that a number of the major players in the registrar industry have chosen to essentially prevent domain names from going back into the public marketplace after expiration and instead hold them and resell them at auctions and exorbitant prices. Is ICANN doing anything about this? Isn't this against the ICANN rules and the rules of a free marketplace?

ICANN

Submitted by Aborcea on Thu, 29 November 2007 - 18:09.

Shouldn't ICANN be regulating against Registrar's essentially stealing domain names and keeping domain names from being released into the public marketplace?