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> the right thing they should do Can someone explain why a product "registered and paid for until 2040" can be unilaterally voided like this without compensati

> the right thing they should do Can someone explain why a product "registered and paid for until 2040" can be unilaterally voided like this without compensation?

lazide 2mo ago
Because they haven’t been sued enough yet?
- account42 2mo ago
  ICANN should not approve such an obviously fraudulent move even without anyone being sued. Neither should Verisign even consider that they'll be able to get away with it. If you need to sue for this something else is already very wrong with the system.
  - lazide 2mo ago
    A lack of consequences (getting sued and losing) is what leads to this. Is it corrupt? Yes. Is there a factor making corruption inevitable? Yes.
- JumpCrisscross 2mo ago
  I guess I’m confused why the author isn’t pursuing this legally.
  - Toynbeeidea 2mo ago
    He is.
  - spider-mario 2mo ago
    The post ends with: “Time to lawyer up...”
toast0 2mo ago
Especially when the marketing was saying [1]: > As your .name can be registered for up to 10 years and ownership is renewable, your .name really can be yours for life. It seemed like there was an offer of renewable registration at least for a life term. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20020609132126/http://nic.name/consumer/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20020609132126/http://nic.name/c...
- vidarh 2mo ago
  Fun fact: The Peter Morgan listed on that page was an actual employee of Global Name Registry. I believe he agreed to sign a contract to let us use the name as example.
jayde2767 2mo ago
That's the crazy part - they can take your money, prorated to some future-period but, upon cancellation, the remaining future period of YOUR money becomes THEIR immediate revenue recognition. Is it fraud or theft? To me, it has to be one or the other...
account42 2mo ago
And lets be clear here, refunding the registration fees should NOT be considered even close to sufficient compensation as Neil and others like him have reasonable assumed they would control the name for that time and made choices that depend on that.

> the right thing they should do Can someone explain why a product "registered and paid for until 2040" can be unilaterally voided like this without compensation?

lazide 2mo ago

Because they haven’t been sued enough yet?

account42 2mo ago
ICANN should not approve such an obviously fraudulent move even without anyone being sued. Neither should Verisign even consider that they'll be able to get away with it. If you need to sue for this something else is already very wrong with the system.
- lazide 2mo ago
  A lack of consequences (getting sued and losing) is what leads to this. Is it corrupt? Yes. Is there a factor making corruption inevitable? Yes.
JumpCrisscross 2mo ago
I guess I’m confused why the author isn’t pursuing this legally.
- Toynbeeidea 2mo ago
  He is.
- spider-mario 2mo ago
  The post ends with: “Time to lawyer up...”

toast0 2mo ago

Especially when the marketing was saying [1]: > As your .name can be registered for up to 10 years and ownership is renewable, your .name really can be yours for life. It seemed like there was an offer of renewable registration at least for a life term. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20020609132126/http://nic.name/consumer/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20020609132126/http://nic.name/c...

vidarh 2mo ago
Fun fact: The Peter Morgan listed on that page was an actual employee of Global Name Registry. I believe he agreed to sign a contract to let us use the name as example.

jayde2767 2mo ago

That's the crazy part - they can take your money, prorated to some future-period but, upon cancellation, the remaining future period of YOUR money becomes THEIR immediate revenue recognition. Is it fraud or theft? To me, it has to be one or the other...

account42 2mo ago

And lets be clear here, refunding the registration fees should NOT be considered even close to sufficient compensation as Neil and others like him have reasonable assumed they would control the name for that time and made choices that depend on that.