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> > Joe Maimon <[email protected]> writes: > > Or perhaps do you mean previous owners can call in a "stop order" or > > "dispute" the transfer unilaterally within X days of occurence, much > > like it works for many REAL money transactions? > > That makes considerable sense. You should be able to call in, say > "roll it back", and have it stay rolled back for a few days until > someone can investigate. It is exactly what I was talking about. > > If people like Melbourne IT are going to claim they can't act on > weekends, it might also be sensible not to allow transfers to be > processed between Thursday and Sunday, though honestly I think if you > are going to be a registrar, you are going to have to deal with > problems over weekends. It is their dirty problem - if they can not act on weekend, they can not maintain a registry, that's all. > > One more disturbing problem here -- it seems (based on external > evidence) that someone managed to fake out the system. Although > Verisign and Melbourne IT seem to think that the transfer was > approved, neither Dotster nor Panix have any record at all of > it. Dotster's records make them think they are still the registrar for > panix.com. It appears someone cracked the system, though whether by > exploiting protocol problems or in some other way isn't clear at all. If I am allowed to say my personal opinion here - it more likely was a technical bnug or human mistake, not a hack. But let's see. This case shiould be carefully investigated, no matte if this transfer was legal or not. > > Perry
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