ICANN has taken my site hostage
If I understood correctly:<p>- the user has made some mistake about some auto-renew feature, so that it didn&#x27;t work smooth and has fallen to the previous known state (=using his real information)<p>&gt; For some reason, WhoisGuard wasn’t set to renew and it expired.<p>- because of that, he didn&#x27;t notice he was receiving e-mails, since it was an e-mail address he hasn&#x27;t used for years.<p>&gt; Because I’ve been using WhoisGuard for years, I haven’t used the old email (...)  that USED to be set as the contact BEFORE (...) This email wasn’t connected to this domain for 3 years. So when it switched back, I never got ANY of ICANN’s verification request emails.<p>- Well, his old e-mail probably got the e-mails. He just didn&#x27;t check it because he didn&#x27;t access the old e-mail. ICANN now verifies every change in the whois information by sending an e-mail (something that I regard as a safety measure, because, well, when you register, you must inform a way to be reached, and e-mail is a reasonable way to do it):<p>&gt; The problem is (1) their emails look like SPAM and often end up in SPAM folders (2) who uses email these days anyway? (3) they often send them to old email addresses.<p>Or, in other words, my e-mail provider filters e-mails automatically (samp rules), who should use e-mail when e-mail is the official way to be contacted about your site (huh?) and ICANN send e-mails to the old address (which is the one he informed when he registered his site).<p>I&#x27;m not sure, perhaps I misunderstood something, but the problem seems to be caused:<p>- by the user: now using auto-renew, not updating the whois information, not checkin the e-mail regularly (or having some forwarding rule to the e-mail he uses today)<p>- by the WhoisGuard, if the auto-renew was disable by mistake of the site, not from the user<p>- by Gmail (?), by having spam rules (?)<p>And I don&#x27;t know where it wa a ICANN error.<p>Sorry, but I don&#x27;t see a real problem here. The user lost his site for few days, ok, but due to some mistakes he made.