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Verio Tries to Terminate Register.com's Accreditation
randomgeek writes: "Following up on this article which appeared earlier, Verio has requested register.com's registrar accreditation be terminated. Basically they're saying that register.com's blocking of whois information is in violation of some registrar agreement that provides for easy access to information by anyone, even for the purpose of advertising registration services. More can be found on the ICANN site here." Note that neither party is in the right; Verio is sending spam with the whois information (forbidden) and Register.com is blocking them from downloading it in bulk (also forbidden). Sigh.
While we're on the topic of registrars - I just moved over a domain from Network Solutions to Dotster, and it was amazingly painless!
Dotster now has a web-based form to fill out that automates the process - easy as pie, and there was no fee other than the normal $15/year domain fee from Dotster. What finally prompted me to do this was Network Solutions asking for $70 to re-up my 6 year old domain (supposed to be $70 for the first two years, then $35 a year after that - all of a sudden they're back to billing in two year increments, now that they have competition? I don't think so!)
FYI, folks.
As far as the article topic - I'll have to side with register.com on this one. Anyone who uses registration info for spamming should have their pubes lit on fire.