ICANN to "Tighten Up" Domain Name Administration

Thansk for the link Dan!

http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/13168/53/

Quote: "We are going to keep this discussion going, get input from the wider community, and then we will make the changes needed to protect registrants and domain names."

If you're an old-school domain registrant like me, you're probably extraordinarily suspicious of anything ICANN promises to do in favor of registrants. But perhaps this Registerfly fiasco (where a predatory registrar operator went crazy and let your domain names lapse, taking payments without providing service) was just the wake-up call the organization needed.

While it may be difficult for outsiders to believe this, up till recently there was a huge disconnect at ICANN where philosophical policy types did business with "registries" and "registrars" and basically ignored the concerns of the registrants who were paying the bills! Like it or not, the naming system has become a business.. The salad-days of addressing being some nebulous, existential, honor system where monopolistic registries lord over naive techies and ICANN with impunity will not last forever. Better ICANN gets ahead of the curve and structures rules to make the business of naming run better.

I like this new "serve your customer" tune I hear coming from ICANN... and the customer is the registrant.

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[ActNow]

We also have to be careful that the pendulum doesn't swing too far in the opposite direction.

As the article mentions, there have been only 1 registrar out of 890 that went rogue.

I'm sure ICA will continue to work with Icann in protecting domain owners rights.