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The domain name industry is a dirty scummy dishonest business. There isn't a company one can deal with that at some point won't make you feel like you're forced to work with crooks just to get an online presence.
http://www.icann.org/en/resources/compliance/complaints/whoi...
That was... interesting.
Good timing on the troll's part as I was migrating from 123-reg to Gandi at just that moment and had to persuade both of them that I was who I said I was and that the info was correct.
If I recall correctly it involved proof that there was a company behind it (company registration documents), proof that the address for the company was correct, and proof that I worked for the company and had the right to represent it.
It's pretty scary to think that your domain might be pulled, and the web properties and email with it, based on a third party report.
At least with this proposal a 15-day window to verify details when you change info is an expected thing.
Oh, and ICANN sent the notification via the registrar to the admin email on the domain... make sure you're monitoring all of those email addresses.
I still don't understand why you even need to have an 'identity' to register a domain. They should be happy with a valid email address and leave it at that.
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To honestly answer your question: the we you refer to isn't in control / power. The system is centralized because the control over nations is centralized. It will remain that way so long as political power remains centralized. Particularly given the immense importance of the internet economy now to most major nations. The political powers that be are not about to let go of something so important. The domain name syst…
What is to prevent an open source DNS server to be deployed all around the world by various people? And browser makers would just add it to the list of servers once it gets big enough. Until then, people could download a program or instructions that would add it, similarly to Google's DNS or OpenDNS Except it would not use the regular DNS system on the back end, but supplement it with its own rules eg not taking a do…
The title is pretty much linkbait. If you change registrar-level things about your domain, they're now required to confirm your contact info with you. This isn't a "DDoS", or "deadly", or any of that nonsense: it's a new strategy to ensure whois data stays updated. Whether or not it's an effective strategy for keeping whois data accurate is another debate (I don't think it is), but talking about it like some maliciou…
This is apparently so the physical mail spammers can send me more physical mail along the lines of "This is the Domain Registry of America! Pay us $1000 to keep your domain!" Uh, no. Where's the FTC when I need it...
I got email from the people who run .us domains demanding a photo of my driver's license to prove I'm American. They did not understand why I might think they were scammers and want them to verify their identity first, nor did they understand how to verify their identity.
ICANN is a mafia! They did this to actually force some old domains to get back into the market. ICANN as an organization will profit little from this, but the people bribing them (domainers, auction sites, domain escrows, etc.) will vastly profit from it. Imagine what would happen if somebody sends you a letter and they get back a letter saying that you cannot receive the letter as you didn't verify your name with US…
Also, redemption isn't a scam, it's a fine to discourage people from making ridiculously late payment! You're given a 45 day window after a domain expires to pay for the renewal before the domain ends up in redemption, and registrars are required to send at least three separate reminder emails at specific intervals to tell you the domain is expiring or has expired. If you can't pay your bills within 45 days, ICANN, the registries, and the registrars aren't the problem: you're own incompetence is the problem.
Everyone who's already screwed themselves with domains by proxy is in for a new world of hurt.
If you use a registrar's WHOIS privacy service, then the registrar still has the (supposedly) correct details and are simply masking them in WHOIS. There's no issue there. However, if you're not using the registrar's own WHOIS privacy service, then yeah, you're potentially opening yourself up to a world of pain, as (a) the domain is no longer actually registered to you in a manner verifiable to the registrar and (b) you might not be able to receive important notification emails that the registrar is required to send you (such as expiry notices).
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I got such an email from Namecheap yesterday, and confirmed it with one click. And unlike the intended trigger for verification ("changes to contact information"), I didn't make any changes to my domain. Either a WHOIS cloak expired, or some other action by Namecheap triggered the verification step.
The email Namecheap sends out is very shady looking. I had to google around quite a bit before concluding it was genuine. The verification link leads to the domain raa.name-services.com and is not delivered over https. It looks exactly like I imagine a targeted phishing email to look.