[NA-Discuss] OnlineNic's real address

[Brendler, Beau]

pretty easy system to game -- has ICANN done anything about this? How can you be an accredited registrar and not list a legitimate physical address as your primary place of doing business?
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From: na-discuss-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org [na-discuss-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Danny Younger [dannyyounger at yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 12:27 PM
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Cc: ga at gnso.icann.org
Subject: [NA-Discuss] OnlineNic's real address

Cybersquatting registrar OnlineNic has gone out of its way to hide its primary business address.  On ICANN's list of accredited registrars it only posts this info:

Carrie Arden Tel: 510-769-8492

Google's residential phonebook shows this phone number registered to:
Rex Liu  2251 Mosley Ave,Alameda, CA 94501

Rex is cited as an onlinenic technical contact here:  http://www.ratite.com/whois/whois.cgi?domain=registrar+ONLINENIC.
Hint:  note the large number of Xiamen, China phone numbers

Meanwhile, OnlineNic's support page provides a mailing address at
351 Embarcadero E.
Oakland, CA 94606

Unfortunately, their office isn't there either -- for an investigative report (complete with pictures) see
http://dotsnews.com/domain-name-news/184

So where is their primary place of business?  See the link below:

http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/pro1/pdf/rop_exhibit_a5.pdf






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