On dinsdag, sep 16, 2003, at 12:25 Europe/Amsterdam, Karl Auerbach
wrote:
1. Via ICANN, instruct Verisign to remove the wildcard.
It isn't clear that this power is vested in ICANN. There is a
complicated
arrangement of Cooperative Agreements, MOUs, CRADAs, and Purchase
Orders
that exist between various agencies of the US Department of Commerce
(including NTIA, NIST, and others) and ICANN and Verisign/NSI.
This web of agreements is sufficiently complicated that often really
isn't
exactly clear who can compel Verisign/NSI on any particular point. In
fact it may well be that the power may not exist. Or it may take a
lot of
legal dollars and time to press the issue.
I think the ICANN has no choice and has to show its teeth here, or just
roll over and die because there no longer is a reason for its existence.
On a related note: so far I have never bothered to move my domains to a
competing registrar before, but now seems a good time to do it. Can
anyone recommend a procedure for select a good quality registrar?
(Off-list if this is more appropriate.)