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

["Ross Wm. Rader" <ross@tucows.com>]

There are no ICANN policies concerning warehousing.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registrars@dnso.org [mailto:owner-registrars@dnso.org]On
> Behalf Of Larry Erlich
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 10:27 AM
> To: Robert F. Connelly
> Cc: registrars@dnso.org
> Subject: Re: [registrars] DomainRegistry.com response to ICANN -
> Verisign
> 
> 
> 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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