Re: [gnso-irtp-b-jun09] 60 day lock following registrant change

["Michele Neylon :: Blacknight" <michele@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7 Jul 2010, at 13:00, Michael Collins wrote:

> 
> George,
> 
> I believe we are participating in this group with the same interests in mind
> so I hate to be perceived as opposing you. Anything I say is with great
> appreciation for your participation. However, it is difficult for the group
> to make progress on our mission if we spend much time discussing situations
> where you are arguing more than one PDP issue at once.
> 
> The group's report states; "The WG agrees that there should be a mechanism
> to dispute an ETRP but has not reached agreement on how such a mechanism
> might work." Please continue to encourage the WG to include a dispute
> provision and even help to design it. However, we should discuss item C
> without using an incomplete ETRP as the primary basis for your position. If
> you remove it from your example, the effect of a 60 lock do not seem so
> onerous. One could, as GoDaddy suggests, transfer the domain to a preferred
> registrar before a registrant change.
> 
> If the group moves away from creating an ETRP dispute mechanism that it
> agrees is needed, then I support your argument of the combined effects of
> these decisions. For now, I would prefer you help create an acceptable
> dispute provision. It is not an easy task!
> 
> You bring up one point that causes me to rethink our decision about item C.
> What is to prevent a registrar from using a lock longer than 60 days? A 60
> day lock does not seem onerous to me, but a 360 day lock might be. I doubt
> that a 50-year lock would fly with compliance, but I am not sure of that. In
> light of this concern, should we reconsider prohibiting a lock when there is
> a registrant change, specifying an appropriate lock period or even requiring
> a 60-day lock for all registrars?

I'd be very wary of forbidding locks completely - locks are one of the ways of 
protecting registrants from slamming techniques used by the likes of DROA etc 



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