Re: [registrars] DomainRegistry.com response to ICANN - Verisign

[Larry Erlich <erlich@domainregistry.com>]

A really good point. I hadn't really considered
that. I'm going to take a look at it from that angle.

Larry Erlich

http://www.DomainRegistry.com


Robert F. Connelly wrote:
> 
> At 08:17 PM 3/31/01 -0500, Larry Erlich wrote:
> >A copy of our protest of the ICANN - Verisign
> >agreement is posted at:
> >
> >http://www.DomainRegistry.com/rejectcontract.html
> 
> Dear Erlich:  Nicely done:-)
> 
> I wonder about the following paragraph from page 3, just above your section C:
> 
> Allow me to also note that VeriSign's role in e-commerce, and the domain name
>   registration business, is not limited to merely that of register and
> registrar. It also
>   owns and operates GreatDomains.com, a commercial reseller of domain names,
>   handling (among other things) sales on VeriSign's behalf of domain names
>   released by subscribers to its registrar business. VeriSign's operation
> of its
>   reseller business is itself the subject of monopolistic-abuse allegations
> relating to
>   its simultaneous role as a registrar. Finally, an examination of
> VeriSign's most
>   recent 10-K filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission
>   (SEC) demonstrates that VeriSign's involvement in other aspects of e-commerce
>   is both exceeding broad and exceedingly significant for the Internet
> community as
>   a whole.
> 
> end quote:
> 
> If this statement correctly describes the operations of GreatDomains, I
> would say they would violate the rules against warehousing by an ICANN
> Accredited Registrar, or any of its affiliates.
> 
> Regards, BobC

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