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Wow, why is this not made a bigger deal of? I mean this is outright market manipulation, is it not?

by osrec 8y ago

anfilt 8y ago
Countries, can construct their own policies for their domains. Sometimes they omit things or allow things that other registries prohibit. They also may require things like being a resident ect... However, quickly looking at some ICANN's policies take look at number 3. Wheather any of this applies to .mx depends on how the policies for that ccTLD are setup. https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/approved-with-specs-2013-09-17-en#registrant https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/approved-with-specs-20... Also if you are thinking of filing a complaint keep in mind ICANN is quite bureaucratic so nothing may happen or take ages. -edit- if the domain in question is important I suggest talking to someone well versed in the minutia of all this.
- osrec 8y ago
  So domain front running is a thing (I actually coined the term yesterday without knowing it was already a thing!): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_front_running https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_front_running According to the article, it seems it's not very well regulated.
anfilt 8y ago
Although, I will add; it's new to me. Godaddy has been known to front run domains. This would be the first time I have heard of it from namecheap.
- osrec 8y ago
  I've seen this happen a couple of times with Namecheap in the last 3 months. The last case was literally yesterday (as I explained in the original post)
  - anfilt 8y ago
    Must be a pretty recent thing if so that's kinda sad. I would say one of the biggest problems is ICANN, and from my understanding was it was supposed to eventually move to where those in charge were openly voted on, but that has never happened. Sadly, ICANN is the defacto DNS root and some their decisions are annoying.

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Wow, why is this not made a bigger deal of? I mean this is outright market manipulation, is it not?

by osrec 8y ago

Wow, why is this not made a bigger deal of? I mean this is outright market manipulation, is it not?

anfilt 8y ago
Countries, can construct their own policies for their domains. Sometimes they omit things or allow things that other registries prohibit. They also may require things like being a resident ect... However, quickly looking at some ICANN's policies take look at number 3. Wheather any of this applies to .mx depends on how the policies for that ccTLD are setup. https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/approved-with-specs-2013-09-17-en#registrant https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/approved-with-specs-20... Also if you are thinking of filing a complaint keep in mind ICANN is quite bureaucratic so nothing may happen or take ages. -edit- if the domain in question is important I suggest talking to someone well versed in the minutia of all this.
- osrec 8y ago
  So domain front running is a thing (I actually coined the term yesterday without knowing it was already a thing!): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_front_running https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_front_running According to the article, it seems it's not very well regulated.
anfilt 8y ago
Although, I will add; it's new to me. Godaddy has been known to front run domains. This would be the first time I have heard of it from namecheap.
- osrec 8y ago
  I've seen this happen a couple of times with Namecheap in the last 3 months. The last case was literally yesterday (as I explained in the original post)
  - anfilt 8y ago
    Must be a pretty recent thing if so that's kinda sad. I would say one of the biggest problems is ICANN, and from my understanding was it was supposed to eventually move to where those in charge were openly voted on, but that has never happened. Sadly, ICANN is the defacto DNS root and some their decisions are annoying.