Domain transfer rules are a cyber squatter charter

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>Date:
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>http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19579
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>By Nick Farrell
>10 November 2004
>
>SECURITY AND network services outfit Netcraft has warned that the new
>rules for domain transfers that will come into effect on Friday, are a
>cyber squatter's charter.
>
>Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), has
>changed the rules so that requests for transferring a domain will be
>automatically approved in five days unless they are denied by the
>owner of the domain.
>
>The current rule is that domain and the nameservers names are kept
>even if a request for a transfer evokes no response.
>
>The problem is that if you the contact addresses given in the records
>are incorrect then a request for transfer would go to a wrong address
>and after five days of no response, the transfer would become
>effective. A Netcraft spokesman said that the new domain rules would
>make it far easier for cybersquatters to take over sites. It said some
>prominent domains which had lapsed without being renewed included The
>Washingon Post and the Gawker weblog.
>
>More famously PR outfit Ogilvy Mather, which looks after our friends
>in IBM, forgot to register their www.oglivy.co.uk address this week
>and found that the site had been hijaked by viral marketers ASABAILEY.
>
>ASABAILEY took control of the domain and promptly uploaded a picture
>of what appear to be dead feet, to make a point about brand
>protection.
>
>The image states: "If you understood the modern brand, you'd
>understand how to protect it."
>
>ICANN said it is anticipating more disputes as it has appointed staff
>to manage its domain dispute resolution policy.
>
>
>
>_________________________________________
>Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB) Everything is Vulnerable - 
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