More fallout from a TERRIBLE response!

http://www.dnjournal.com/newsletters/2008/june.htm

I also see GoDaddy reversed course and is doing the right thing. Will Tucows.com follow their lead and make some better decisions?

I met with Howard today and we agreed that the WADND board of advisors should weigh in and see if Tucows.com still meet the criteria for our seal.

Hope their shareholders are getting their monies worth. This is just the beginning of the fallout. Abuse of domainers is going to STOP and those that don’t believe it, just take a seat and watch how this unfolds. Remember last week Tucows had a chance to contain this. Now they don’t. This is unraveling faster than they can keep up with the events and it is going to spread further faster. When do you all think they will get a clue?

The deadline is August 4th!

Read section 3.7.5… here’s a quote:

“3.7.5 Registrar shall register Registered Names to Registered Name Holders only for fixed periods. At the conclusion of the registration period, failure by or on behalf of the Registered Name Holder to pay a renewal fee within the time specified in a second notice or reminder shall, in the absence of extenuating circumstances, result in cancellation of the registration.”

If the requirement is that the registration is CANCELLED, then the name must be DROPPED, right?

We need to hold ICANN’s feet to the fire to make the Registrars follow the agreement.

Also, take a look at section 3.7.9, this is it in entirety…

“3.7.9 Registrar shall abide by any ICANN adopted specifications or policies prohibiting or restricting warehousing of or speculation in domain names by registrars.”

What’s the purpose of this section if it isn’t to state that warehousing or speculation by registrars amounts to dirty dealing???

Tucows and any other registrar that has picked up a single dropped name without sending it to acution has to be forced by ICANN to drop those names!

The Registrar Accreditation Agreement is currently up for public comment:
http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-18jun08-en.htm

Every domainer needs to make their voice heard here loudly and clearly that this crap has to stop.

If we can get a few other domainers in, you know I’m in.

20K to end all the nonsense.

Might be the cheapest money any of us ever spend.

I think it is worth $20 grand to get a REAL opinion and a way forward on a class action including costs and the funding options we may have. There is so much conflict of interest here that at some point the courts need to get involved.

I think there is some other $$$ on the sidelines that would join the fight that may have not joined any associations and waiting for something more specific to fight.

Tucows left on Friday really believing they had this behind them. We promised that we would just start this weekend and that is what we are doing.