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[Admin]

For the record, I have never been in a situation where I needed an upstream party to resolve a dispute with a reseller. So I don’t know exactly how all of this works.

But I wonder if you have ever gone through this too. Are you speaking from experience or assumption here?

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But I am more optimistic about this than you are. Yes, if you go to ICANN directly, they will tell you to go to the registrar first and try to resolve it with them. Registrars are quite powerful and quite well trusted, and ICANN isn’t going to throw them under the bus due to a sketchy reseller or a misunderstanding.

And I don’t expect that you can just send them an email and have the EPP code sent to you within a day. Dispute resolutions can take a long time, because ICANN and the registrar both don’t want to go behind the backs of their own customers if they can help it. And the consequence may be that you’re stuck with the registrar for a bit longer than you would like to, and may have to renew your domain with them while the procedures are ongoing.

@chiucs123

or just have them revoked

Again, report them to the registrar or ICANN. Registrars have the obligation to keep your domain active, and can only take it down if you do something illegal. Stealing your domain name because you refuse to pay their extortion fees is a violation on their part.

But again, having the right and being able to exercise it are not the same. The reseller still has power of you, even if they are wrong, and are technically able to take down their domain, even if they don’t have the right to. And screaming that they are wrong will probably not change their mind.

@chiucs123

Worse of all, since they had the ownership anyways, keep holding on to the domain and claim it for sale, which is what *ugeDomain and sometimes *oDaddy has been doing a along.

Simple: don’t let your domain expire with the assumption that you will be able to re-register it. Backorder auctions are common and perfectly legal. If you want to keep your domain, make sure you don’t let it expire.

[chiucs123]

@Admin

But I wonder if you have ever gone through this too. Are you speaking from experience or assumption here?

Definately from experience, but not mine but sometimes my clients when they would like to transfer their domain over, which I won’t have control over when the domain is getting renewed in the first place.

Sometimes the domain comes already expired and they ask for help, sometimes they are well before the expiration but the registrar already begun playing cards. I’m no fortuneteller and I would not know whatever happened before they reach me.

Personally I have a list of blacklisted registrars regardless of their legal state of being, as I have already know their malpractices, and pointing those out does not make them doing these things right anyways.

@Admin

And I don’t expect that you can just send them an email and have the EPP code sent to you within a day

That differs on which provider you work with, most registrar systems are automated nowadays and some of them did excellent jobs on handling domains pretty easily.

@Admin

Registrars have the obligation to keep your domain active, and can only take it down if you do something illegal. Stealing your domain name because you refuse to pay their extortion fees is a violation on their part.

@Admin

The reseller still has power of you, even if they are wrong, and are technically able to take down their domain, even if they don’t have the right to.

Unfortunately there is a discrepancy between law and reality that you inevitably have to admit, the facts won’t change even if you do not want to.

@Admin

Simple: don’t let your domain expire with the assumption that you will be able to re-register it. Backorder auctions are common and perfectly legal. If you want to keep your domain, make sure you don’t let it expire.

Tell that to the world and probably most people will still be asking for assistance when their domain is about to expire.