by hafichuk on 7/26/13, 8:10 PM with 22 comments
by npsimons on 7/26/13, 9:14 PM
You know what? I have no obligation to keep an open line of communication to anyone. I mainly have a domain so I don't have to memorize the IP address of my servers that mainly I use, and so I never have to change my email address. My registrar can get ahold of me for billing and technical purposes, but otherwise I don't want to see spam about domain name SEO BS. I may keep the requisite RFC recommended email aliases open for technical contact purposes, but I have no responsibility to respond to emails sent to those addresses, and I fully reserve the right to drop all traffic from IPs that send spam to those email addresses.
by arkitaip on 7/26/13, 9:06 PM
by user24 on 7/26/13, 8:50 PM
On a side note, does anyone know if Kirsty and Robert still work at ycombinator? No reason.
edit: Ooh, it looks like YC's address info is incorrect on one of their whois entries. Are they at 32 or 320 Pioneer Way? And those phone numbers are completely wrong too.
by ChikkaChiChi on 7/26/13, 9:03 PM
Six months later I noticed that ownership had changed and much to the chagrin of our domain manager and legal representative who was supposed to handle the whole thing; the domain was in the hands of another company who had legal trademark right in another industry.
Not sure if corollary is causal here, but it 'FELT' like ICANN worked for a brief second, there.
by eeeeeeeeeeeee on 7/26/13, 9:45 PM
My registrar "accidentally" put my real mobile number from my billing info (instead of my Skype number) in my WHOIS record once and I had to get another number it was so bad.
by billpg on 7/26/13, 9:41 PM
I've been approached by someone who wanted a domain I have, but I usually just don't respond, lest my words be seen as "bad faith".
by driverdan on 7/26/13, 11:38 PM
I've reported domains that had obviously fake contact info on them, like fake phone numbers or fake addresses. If you don't want to use real info use a proxy service.
by larrys on 7/26/13, 8:54 PM
Well first to clear something up ICANN merely forwards these complaints to registrars to investigate.
ICANN does not do anything to delete the domain name or anything like that.
Nor do they have any way to do that (other than getting the registrar of the name to delete it which they aren't going to do). There is no button they can press. In theory the registry above the registrar (Verisign for .com .net, PIR for .org, Afilias for .info) could but they won't either.
A registrar will simply attempt to contact the owner and depending on how that goes will decide how to proceed with something like this. For practical and legal reasons registrars are not going to delete a domain name and invite a host of problems just because of an incorrect email address and because a form was submitted to ICANN. (There are other things they might do but that's not the practical solution to the problem).
The above is based on my involvement with a registrar for many many years (longer than most registrars have been around) on what you could call a "senior" level.
by cyansmoker on 7/27/13, 6:35 AM
"Someone pointed out to me that I could game the system to get my hands on a domain I may make money reselling. I have mixed feelings because I'm a good person but still I like money. In the end I don't think I will do it. Where is my cookie?"
by tbrownaw on 7/26/13, 9:19 PM
by adaml_623 on 7/26/13, 8:58 PM
IMHO
by andyhmltn on 7/26/13, 10:59 PM
by ivanbrussik on 7/26/13, 8:41 PM