Re: [registrars] Latest Verisign Survey

[Rick Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>]

Jim,

it was not clear if VeriSign wants to run EPP in thick or thin mode so
some of you worries may or may not be justified.

-rick

On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Jim Archer wrote:

> Hi All...
>
> I just received the latest customer survey from Verisign, asking how
> quickly we want to move to an EPP registry.
>
> I would urge everyone not to be in too big a hurry to do this.  We all know
> our whois data is being mined and we further know that Verisign Registrar
> has been hit with an injunction to stop their deceptive transfer notice
> marketing, as a result of Bulk Registrar's legal action.  And, we know that
> GoDaddy filed a suit claiming that Verisign was still sending these
> notices, just not to Bulk Registrars customers.  Verisign has not denied
> this.
>
> We also know that Verisign insists it has no monopoly, so it is not subject
> to regulation.  That would mean that the "Chinese Wall" they maintain is
> not mandated by law and any violation of that policy would be at the very
> worst a contract violation and perhaps a violation of nothing at all.
>
> Given all that, I have to question the wisdom of handing them my customer
> data.  If they drop RRP, we're going to have to give all our contact data
> to them.  Given the track record on the use of such data it would seem the
> chances of abuse of that data are high.
>
> I urge you all to oppose this change.
>
> Jim
>
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