Re: [ga] ICANN Board can intervene to stop domain tasting for 1 year

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jonathon and all,

  Well glad to see that NSI has at least taken some good steps thus far.

Well done, but not yet good enough!  Again, changing or increasing
transactions fees to address tasted names is a irresponsible and
unnecessary
punitive response to further address the tasting problem however and one

that will only temporarly reduce, not eliminate the practice.

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"Nevett, Jonathon" wrote:

> Dominik, George and others:
>
> George is correct that if the tasting issue had been addressed, the
> Front Running phenomena would not have been so acute and we would not
> have felt compelled to protect our customers with this measure.  For
> 30 months, I have been advocating that ICANN should charge the
> Transaction Fee on tasted
> names http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/registrars/msg02941.html.
> We still support that approach to end tasting.
>
> I also want to mention that we have made some enhancements to our
> approach in response to many of the comments we have received.  We
> still are evaluating some others internally.  Here is what we have
> done so far:
>
> 1.All new reserved names will not resolve to any page at all.
>
> 2.We have addressed the concerns related to disclosure of zone file
> and DNS server information of the reserved names.  This information
> will no longer be available to anyone.
>
> 3.We have removed our customer protection measure from our WHOIS
> search page, so that no domains searched on this page will be
> reserved.
>
> 4.We are providing additional customer notification of our protection
> measure on our home and search web pages.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jon
>
> Network Solutions
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Dominik Filipp
> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 12:16 PM
> To: George Kirikos; ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: twomey@xxxxxxxxx; roberto@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ga] ICANN Board can intervene to stop domain tasting for
> 1 year
>
> George,
>
> well, agreed on many your counts here. Just one remark, we still can
>
> distinguish between the NSI practice and standard domain tasting in
> that
>
> NSI trades on the AGP to force potential registrants performing whois
>
> lookup on their site to buy a domain of interest at them, for the NSI
>
> standard price $35, though. Sure, some tasting registrars can misuse
> the
>
> NSI-looking page (pharming) to grab names but this is relatively
>
> unlikely unless you do not take care about the domain address of the
>
> 'pharmer'. After all, this may happen to many other entities, such as
>
> banks, paypal, various private sensitive services, etc.
>
> But the important difference here is that NSI does not utilize PPC
>
> advertising, does not auction or otherwise speculate with grabbed
> names
>
> and is eventually willing to sell such grabbed domains for standard
> NSI
>
> prices. The problem is a new deceptive way of exploiting AGP, which is
>
> forcing the victims to buy such domains only at NSI. Something we have
>
> not seen before and something that may perhaps become similarly
>
> malicious in result as domain tasting itself. If not stopped, it is
>
> likely that other registrars will be encouraged to do the same as this
>
> practice currently gives NSI an advantage over other registrars. As a
>
> result, the registrants will become victims impelled to register
> domains
>
> at registrar at which they did the first (and last) whois lookup.
>
> Both practices have one thing in common, exploiting the AGP.
> Elimination
>
> of the AGP seems to be more and more the most effective solution to
>
> avoid both and all similar AGP-related practices. That is something we
>
> both can agree upon.
>
> Dominik
>