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Registrars Still Ignoring ICANN Rules
stry_cat writes "Over a year ago ICANN moved to clean up misbehaving registrars like GoDaddy. They released this scary sounding advisory. However, over a year later, problems remain. One company is now publicly complaining. Some of the biggest registrars are slammed for their actions. 'Register.com is one frustrating company. The ICANN policy clearly prohibits blocking a transfer of a domain name that has expired but not yet been deleted. Despite that, a customer trying to transfer a three-day-expired Register.com domain name told us last week that they refused to give him the necessary code to allow him to transfer — unless he pays them to renew it first. ... GoDaddy (and their reseller arm, Wild West Domains) have a different problem: They still block transfers for 60 days after a registrant's contact update, even after the ICANN update specifically prohibited doing so. They freely admit it, too. ... We see a similar problem with many transfers from Network Solutions.'"
Socialist attempts by ICANN to regulate and introduce market inefficiency in the domain-registration business are tantamount to introducing price controls.
Milton Friedman's free market efficiency theory proves that 100% market efficiency arises as a result of zero regulation, and our goal as denizens of the internet is to pursue maximal free market efficiency in order to further the interests of the public good.
No Rules and Laws are the same. If no one enforce them no one will follow them.
Somebody should buy ICANN some backbone and a nice baseball bat.
Actually, under rule 1222.3 subsection (g), a registrar can suspend the transfer of a domain to another registrar. To do so, the suspending registrar must notify the authority via email with the subject header "ICANN haz domane tranfurr blokking?" Naturally, the duration of the transfer delay depends on the cuteness of the enclosed lolcat.
Shouldn't ICANN already have all the backbone it needs? Oh, wait...