M0nKeY
Joined: 09 Feb 2002
Posts: 1235
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| Posted: 06-01-2002 07:57 PM Post subject: NSI Abuse |
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A few years back, the government split up the monopoly Network Solutions held on the registration market. Now, at that time, they still allowed network solutions to controll the global registry (the thing that all competing registrars must report back to so all the data is kept in sync). As you may know, network solutions is now owned by Verisign.
Our good friends at VeriSign not only operate two registrars (registrars.com and Network Solutions), but also this central registry called "Verisign Global Registry." lots of domains have been expiring in the last few months as people forget to pay their bills, dot com companies flop, ect. When these domains expire, they are supposed to be deleted within a maximum timeframe of 30 to 45 days. Otherwise the registrar must pay an adidional registry fee to keep the domain active. (No registrar will do this unless they get paid by the client of course). This is all according to the global registry policy.
Lets do a WHOIS lookup on a domain I know is expired, becasue I've been trying to register it SkullBocks.com wich if of course, the domain name used in the popular movie "Anti-Trust". The domain is registered at Network Solutions and it says "Record expires on 05-May-2001." so I contacted VeriSign and asked why the domain hasnt been deleted yet. No Response.
I spoke with an official at a competing registrar who told me, "VerisSign essentially is allowed to break its own rules. It just says that it pays itself the additional registry fee to keep the domain alive. In all honesty. VeriSign could continue to hold onto as many expired domains for however long it wanted, and never be breaking the registry rules."
ICANN, the non-profit corperation what was formed to assume responsibility for the IP address space allocation, Protocal parameter addignment, domain name systemmanegment, and root server system manegment functions, has yet to adopt a polocy that supersedes the policies put in place by VeriSign in this manner. |
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