[At-Large] [ALAC] Fwd: A million domains taken down by email checks

[John Levine]

> Evan, one point. It is unclear to me whether the issue is 100% invalid 
> addresses, or as some people have implied, valid addresses where the 
> registrant has not replied in 15 days. The two situations are substantively 
> different, and we need to get a handle on which is the cause of these 
> suspensions, or if mixed, what percentage. If someone on this list *knows* 
> definitively what the answer is, it would be much appreciated.

As the sub-registrar of one of those 800,000 domains, I can report that 
the confirmation mail has a link you have to click to confirm that you got 
it.  It is not a big deal.  If you don't click on the link in the original 
message, they send multiple reminders.

I strongly endorse everything that Evan said, and also reiterate that this 
is basically about money: registrars not wanting to spend anything to 
comply with the RAA that they and the registrants agreed to.

Regards,
John Levine, john.levine at cauce.org
CAUCE North America