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"suggesting that the domain name can be reported to ICANN, and if they can’t get in touch with the owner, it might be delete (sic) and he could possibly catch t
by larrys 13y ago
"suggesting that the domain name can be reported to ICANN, and if they can’t get in touch with the owner, it might be delete (sic) and he could possibly catch the drop."
Well first to clear something up ICANN merely forwards these complaints to registrars to investigate.
ICANN does not do anything to delete the domain name or anything like that.
Nor do they have any way to do that (other than getting the registrar of the name to delete it which they aren't going to do). There is no button they can press. In theory the registry above the registrar (Verisign for .com .net, PIR for .org, Afilias for .info) could but they won't either.
A registrar will simply attempt to contact the owner and depending on how that goes will decide how to proceed with something like this. For practical and legal reasons registrars are not going to delete a domain name and invite a host of problems just because of an incorrect email address and because a form was submitted to ICANN. (There are other things they might do but that's not the practical solution to the problem).
The above is based on my involvement with a registrar for many many years (longer than most registrars have been around) on what you could call a "senior" level.
- ChikkaChiChi 13y agoDoes any part of my anecdote (below) hold water, then? We were able to prove trademark ownership, active protection, and commercial use which leads me to believe it was enough for ICANN and (an assumption on my part) Network Solutions to proceed with releasing it.
- larrys 13y agoNoting that I said "There are other things they might do" So without knowing the specific domain it would be important to know whether the domain was actually deleted (at which point it becomes a free for all in the drop) or something else happened to it (like an inside job at the registrar). By the way Network Solutions was famous for this happening. I don't know if it happens anymore (there) or when it stopped happening (there) but many people got hold of domains by having an inside employee at NSI work with them. If you gave me the domain name I could check a few things and possibly either rule in or rule out the possibilities. But once again ICANN would only forward the report to the registrar and they decide how it will be handled etc. The trademark stuff means nothing in the scheme of this! Proving a trademark and gaining ownership is a completely different process. If you were to call us and try to get a domain that way it wouldn't (and shouldn't) work. Related things happen quite frequently. Specifically some web guy registers a domain name for a client and then the client tries to get hold of the domain. We don't (and can't) get in the middle of those things. I suspect other registrar operate in a close fashion.
- ubernostrum 13y agoYeah, if somebody wants a domain, the thing to do is send a badly-forged fax to the registrar initiating a transfer.