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I presume it's attempting (badly) to deal with website owners who aren't contactable by mistake, not those who actively wish to be uncontactable.

• lisper 11y ago
  Disabling their domains seems like a pretty heavy-handed way of dealing with owners who can't be contacted due to an honest mistake. I mean, geez, a false positive from a spam filter can cause you to lose your domain!
  • puredemo 11y ago
    Domains are suspended, not deleted from the registry.
    • lisper 11y ago
      OK... so a false positive from a spam filter can make your site go down for as long as it take to straighten out the mess. That's not a whole lot better.
      • talideon 11y ago
        Still better than having to pay redemption fees.
  • talideon 11y ago
    Well, blame the law-enforcement agencies: they're the ones that forced ICANN's hand on this. The registrars, particularly the European ones, fought back, and the policy is nowhere near as bad as it once was going to be. However, even before now, you could easily lose your domain due to a missed email. For instance, if you don't have your domain on autorenew, it can end up in redemption (which is expensive), and eventually deleted. And, as of the 2013 RAA, if you don't renew your domain, your registrar is required to park the domain with a non-renewal notice a few days after its expiration date. Fun, eh?