RE: [ga] Verisign spamming domain name registrants??

[Joanna Lane <jo-uk@rcn.com>]

Rick
> Wesson
> Leah,
>
> organize a protest in Montreal, have real persons picket, if you can just
> get .0001 of the Internet population to show up in force at a free meeting
> in Canada I'm sure it would turn some heads and maybe change some minds.
>
> -rick

You organize a protest and don't hold your breath for registrants to step
foward. This is one of the prices you pay for throwing out the Individual
Registrants constituency from the GNSO and burying the At Large under
mountains of ICANN Staff so that any protest that has merit will never see
the light of day. Too little, too late. Everybody left. Sorry.

Joanna




>
>
> On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, L. Gallegos wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On 4 Jun 2003 at 11:39, George Kirikos wrote:
> >
> > > It'd be as "personalized" (i.e. unique and targeted) as any of the
> > > phony renewals notices, I imagine.
> > >
> > > Would it be ok for others, following this precedent, to do as Verisign
> > > does, with their own "informational messages"?
> > >
> >
> > Define "informational messages."  If it means administrative
> notices, that should
> > come from the registrar of record for the domain, not the
> registry.  I am not the
> > customer of the registry unless it is a "thick" model.
> >
> > If a message is issued by the registrar with whom you have the
> domain, it would be
> > not only acceptable, but, IMO, expected.  However, coming from
> the parent registry
> > with whom you do "not" have a customer/vendor relationship, it
> is spam.  Even if the
> > registry (assuming a "thin" model) is instituting changes in
> policy, it should reach
> > registrants via the sponsoring registrar.  In the case of a
> "thick" model, where the
> > registrant also has a relationship with the registry itself,
> administrative messages
> > might be expected from both registrar and registry.
> >
> > My domains are registered with a registrar other than NSI and I
> delete messages
> > from NSI and/or Verisign.  I get Verisign spams all the time
> and simply filter them to
> > dev/null.  Any message I receive from my registrar is opened
> immediately as long as
> > there are no attachments and no html.  My mail client is set to
> read text only and
> > attachments are stripped or quarantined by my firewall.
> >
> > There are many negative issues with WLS.  I have a sick feeling
> that it's going to
> > backfire badly and do substantial harm to registrants, along
> with the extortion
> > exhibited with RGP.  The unprededented greed is geared to milk
> the public world
> > wide until individuals revolt in some way.  How long before
> this happens?  I don't
> > know, but we're all in for a rocky ride.
> >
> > Leah
> >
> >
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