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Story: Registrar named in massive cybersquatting suit

Posted by: Lonny Paul (Friday 28 July 2006, 12:35 AM)

Although I do not believe in a world full of lawsuits, this was long in the coming, and far from reaches the biggest violators of these practices.

As the former Director of eCommerce at a major .com, I stumbled upon these types of problems about four years ago. During my tenure with the company, I must have 'shut down' over 100 websites of true squatters, however began to see the pattern of consistent registrars who would only hold the domain for 1-3 days.

In fact, recently I've watched my expired domains pass through 1-4 hands before they were either deleted from the registry or they were sold.

I've even received emails to buy back my expired domains, while under these "three day" periods they are held by the registrar without fee.

This must STOP.
ICANN needs to realize SOMETHING IS WRONG HERE!

Many of their registrars don't even have a public website. C'mon!

And their response?

SILENCE