Stiffening at last, ICANN threatens Registerfly with legal action

In another article by Burke Hansen in The Register, claiming it looks like ICANN is ready to do battle with RegisterFly in court. With Hansen claiming RegisterFly is not the only troublesome Registrar, and “the action falls short of the establishment of a formal, transparent dispute mechanism to resolve these sorts of issues before they spiral out of control, … ICANN’s legal gambit provides a roadmap of sorts for future policy.” Hansen concludes “The letter to Registerfly constitutes an admission of the feebleness of that approach” where “ICANN insisted that registration complaints of all sorts needed to be resolved at the registrar – domain holder level.”

Stiffening at last, ICANN threatens Registerfly with legal action
In another article by Burke Hansen in The Register, claiming it looks like ICANN is ready to do battle with RegisterFly in court. With Hansen claiming RegisterFly is not the only troublesome Registrar, and “the action falls short of the establishment of a formal, transparent dispute mechanism to resolve these sorts of issues before they spiral out of control, … ICANN’s legal gambit provides a roadmap of sorts for future policy.” Hansen concludes “The letter to Registerfly constitutes an admission of the feebleness of that approach” where “ICANN insisted that registration complaints of all sorts needed to be resolved at the registrar – domain holder level.”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/04/icann_sues_registerfly/

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