So the discussion on Politech about the reliability of domain registrars led to this survey, which we published today: http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6155614.html Excerpt: "We found that the French registrar Gandi.net and New Orleans-based DirectNIC offered the most extensive guarantees against unnecessary domain name suspension." I've included the survey questions below. Previous Politech messages: http://www.politechbot.com/2007/01/29/jim-davidson-on/ http://www.politechbot.com/2007/01/29/response-to-godaddys/ -Declan --- 1. Under what circumstances will you suspend a customer's domain name based on the content of his or her Web site, in the absence of a court order? 2. How many times a month, on average, do you suspend a customer's domain name based on the content of his or her Web site? 3. What are the most common reasons for suspension? 4. How many domain names do your customers currently have registered through you? 5. GoDaddy last week suspended its customer's domain, seclists.org, because of a complaint from MySpace. Would you have done the same thing in the same way if seclists.org happened to be your customer? 6. If you do suspend domain names in the absence of a court order, what procedures do you have in place to ensure that the customer is notified beforehand and given adequate opportunity to respond? 7. Do you believe that your most important responsibility is to provide technical services to paying customers -- or is it to police the content of their Web sites, FTP sites, and so on? 8. Are you attempting to recruit GoDaddy customers as a result of last week's news about seclists.org? 9. If you do suspend domain names in the absence of a court order, how do your customers go about getting their sites restored? 10. Do you have a dedicated department or person who handles issues related to domain name suspensions? _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/) ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]