http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19579
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.
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