ICANNWatch | Why is Dotster silent about the Panix hijack?

Why is Dotster silent about the Panix hijack?
posted by michael on Monday February 07 2005, @03:55AM

Sam Varghese writes "Panix.com was hijacked on January 16. One of the parties involved, Melbourne IT, has fessed up to its shortcomings. Strangely, the other main player, Dotster, is silent. (second visit requires registration)"

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Not quite silent
by tbyfield ({tbyfield} {at} {panix.com}) on Monday February 07 2005, @10:56AM (#14644)
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Better still, Dotster followed up on the incident by spamming past (and, I assume, present) customers—including those at Panix—with PR about their domain-locking service.

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The Answer Is Obvious
by jberryhill on Monday February 07 2005, @05:39PM (#14645)
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...and it gets at the heart of what is wrong with the transfer dispute policy.

The problem with the transfer dispute policy is that it practically requires a registrar to admit they did something wrong. American businesses operate according to the principle that to admit error is to accept liability. Nobody does that.

If the transfer dispute policy were accessible to registrants, instead of registrars, the transfer policy would make a whole lot more sense.

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