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Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> wrote:

> This leads to a somewhat unrelated question.  Do you have to respond to 
> those ICANN requests?  My registrars always send me these ICANN requests 
> to update info and since my data is up to date I simply ignore them.  
> Somehow though I suspect if someone wants to steal one of my domains 
> could my not logging in and saying everything is OK considered in 
> violation of something?

I don't know for sure but when that ICANN verification came to be, it looked
like a cheap fix for a minority problem.

As far as I know, if you do ignore them, nothing really happens.

Where the shoe falls is if the domain name gets involved with some kind of
dispute for whatever reason. If the registration service can't cough up the
verifications to ICANN, it's assumed the registration was fraudulent and
away it goes.

It was a band-aid solution to dealing with an amputation but was the only
practical solution they could come up with. It basically verifies that there
is a working email address associated with the domain name.

Again, as far as I know, the actual information in the verification request
does not have to be accurate, it just really needs to be acknowledged to be
in compliance.

I'm sure none of the registration services do anything if they are ignored
but you are giving them a tool to give you a headache later if for some
reason a dispute appears about your domain name.

-bruce
bje@ripco.com