[gnso-irtp-b-jun09] Re: GoDaddy holding domains "hostage" via so-called "opt-in" procedures?

[George Kirikos <icann@xxxxxxxx>]

P.S. Note that GoDaddy ended up *releasing* the name here:

http://twitter.com/wedschilde/status/16443332949

"thank you @godaddy. i appreciate your releasing threecrowpress. thank
you for calling back! and working w/ me."

How'd they do it? They *called back." So, telephone verification.
That's an "out of band" solution, oh, the kind that was talked about
*5 years ago* in that report (and long before that elsewhere, i.e. the
5 year old report wasn't inventing anything new that people didn't
know for years).

What was the "cost" --- VOIP outgoing calls, a couple of cents/minute?
It can be automated, using PIN codes when they first sign up for a
domain. Even less if you use SMS. If you want to involve humans,
$20/hr (might be high) can probably validate 10 or 20 people per hour.
Say 10, that's $2 more for the human validation.

If one built-in very proactive security from the beginning (i.e. what
the reports all suggested, not "reactive solutions"), the costs are
even lower.

Sincerely,

George Kirikos
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