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madflo on Dec 30, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Gandi.net will contribute $1 per inbound transfer ...

This is called a NIC handle : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIC_handle

This is not some crazy French law; Gandi has been in the registrar business for quite a long time and OVH loves standards :-)

AdamGibbins on Dec 30, 2011 [–]

Good spot, thanks :) Never even occurred to me it would be registrar related, as I don't use OVH as a registrar - they must apply the same standard to all their customers.

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