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Re:ICANN's new rules for domain registrants require you to v... by uptown on Friday January 03, 2014 @08:40AM (#7005317)
Are these formal ICANN rule-changes, or just how iwantmyname is choosing to enforce the verification aspect of domain ownership? Seems like what they're saying they may do is replace your domain with some lead-generation landing-page similar to what many domain registrars do upon registering a new domain prior to modifying the DNS settings.
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Re:ICANN's new rules for domain registrants require you to v... by jkldotio on Friday January 03, 2014 @08:50AM (#7005363)
I've spoken to Timo and the others on the team at iwantmyname before and they're all pretty laid back so I can't imagine them doing this unless they really had to.

Edit. This seems to be a more legal-like explanation of the relevant rules from a registrar called enom. http://www.comprotex.com/icann.html

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Re:ICANN's new rules for domain registrants require you to v... by corobo on Friday January 03, 2014 @09:44AM (#7005610)
As commented above[1] it looks like this is required by a new contract which is required for registrars to sell all of these new (and imo, silly) TLDs such as .cab, .sexy, etc

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7005417

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Re:ICANN's new rules for domain registrants require you to v... by treitnauer on Friday January 03, 2014 @03:02PM (#7007739)
As many others pointed out this is a change in ICANN policies and we are required to do this. The page will be completely neutral without any ads.
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Re:ICANN's new rules for domain registrants require you to v... by devicenull on Friday January 03, 2014 @08:48AM (#7005356)
It's almost certainly just them. You'll note that you haven't heard of any of the other registars talking about this.
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Re:ICANN's new rules for domain registrants require you to v... by aeden on Friday January 03, 2014 @10:31AM (#7005868)
No, this is incorrect - it is part of the new Registry Registrar Agreement that ICANN ratified earlier this year. It goes into effect 1 January. All accredited registrars will have to agree to it this year to retain their accreditation.
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Re:ICANN's new rules for domain registrants require you to v... by treitnauer on Friday January 03, 2014 @03:09PM (#7007779)
Others in the industry have updated their sites or informed their customers as well:

- http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/8948/verifying-conta...

- http://www.hover.com/blog/icann-registrant-verification-is-c...

- http://blog.dnsimple.com/2013/12/new-rules-for-domain-regist...

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Re:ICANN's new rules for domain registrants require you to v... by jfreak53 on Friday January 03, 2014 @08:50AM (#7005366)
It's only them, the upline we use hasn't said a word to us about it. I just asked support and he seemed shocked I would even ask ha ha.
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Re:ICANN's new rules for domain registrants require you to v... by aeden on Friday January 03, 2014 @10:32AM (#7005873)
You should be very concerned about your registrar, then, because they are not paying attention to ICANN policy.
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Re:ICANN's new rules for domain registrants require you to v... by talideon on Friday January 03, 2014 @05:25PM (#7008662)
No, it's not. Any registrar on the 2013 RAA has to proactively validate and verify WHOIS data accuracy. Those still on the 2009 RAA only have to reactively validate and verify WHOIS data accuracy in response to complaints.
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