RE: [gnso-rap-dt] Front-Running

["Greg Aaron" <gaaron@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Post-expiration has its own PDP effort, recently started, which will look at
issues related to how registrars handle expired domain names:
[http://gnso.icann.org/issues/post-expiration-recovery/call-pdp-pednr-06jul0
9.pdf].  So that's not a topic for RAPWG.
All best,
--Greg

 

-----Original Message-----
From: George Kirikos [mailto:icann+rap@xxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 10:54 AM
To: gnso-rap-dt@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [gnso-rap-dt] Front-Running


Hi folks,

If we were to use the SSAC definition of front-running:

http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-04aug09-en.htm

"an opportunity for a party to obtain some form of insider information
regarding an Internet user's preference for registering a domain name and to
use this opportunity to preemptively register that domain name.
In this scenario, "insider information" is information gathered from the
monitoring of one or more attempts by an Internet user to check the
availability of a domain name."

then it could capture freshly deleted domain names as an area of study. I'm
not sure that's a topic we necessarily want to cover (the issue of
expiring/deleted domains has already been the topic of many ICANN debates,
e.g. WLS, CLS, Expired Domain Deletion Policy, Redemption Grace Period, and
so on), so instead we could refine that definition to focus only on domains
that are truly "fresh" (i.e.
haven't been previously registered recently or deleted recently).
Thoughts? If others do want to rehash the older debates here, please advise.

Even if we decide not to cover things in this workgroup, I will note that we
at least discussed that there would have been some overlap if we used the
broad definition, instead of a more focused one.

Sincerely,

George Kirikos
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