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• Reply to Mr. Baltz' comment
  Hello CNET readers,
  
  Mr. Baltz is referring to a litigious domain
  name that was transferred to Gandi following a
  fradulant ownership change at the previous
  registrar.
  
  In the short time that the domain was registered
  with Gandi following a transfer, we were unable
  to verify the authenticity of the documents
  provided as evidence of the domain name's
  registrant. The documents provided that Mr.
  Baltz mentione are also currently under
  investigation by the FBI as they are deemed to
  be fradulant and/or part of a fradulant
  transaction.
  
  As Gandi takes extreme measures to protect the
  rights of domain name owners, and as the
  documents in the particular case to which Mr.
  Baltz is referring were of inauthentic, we
  requested only certified copies, which were not
  provided.
  
  Additionally, the .com registry, Verisign, the
  former registrar, and Gandi were all in
  agreement that the validity of the domain's
  owner was questionable and thus the transfer of
  the domain, irregular. Consequently, the domain
  was returned by the Registry to the former
  registrar, following a special inter-registrar
  procedure set up for such purposes, where the
  owner was returned to the legitimate owner by
  the original registrar.
  
  This is just another example of the importance
  that registrars must take in ensuring that the
  owner of a domain is indeed the owner before
  undertaking any operation concerning the
  modification of a domain name's owner.
  
  This is the final communication that we will
  make on this particular topic, which has been
  resolved at the registry level.
  
  ---
  Gandi SAS
  www.gandi.net

  March 28, 2007

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