Shut down MarkMonitor

[Freddy Lundekvam <freddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear ICANN –

Regarding the proposed rules governing companies that provide WHOIS privacy 
services (as set forth in the Privacy and Policy Services Accreditation Issues 
Policy document):

In terms of your existing policy requiring everyone to maintain their WHOIS 
data, then with this new "suggestion" (Which is rather pathetic), you open up 
for a whole new world of falsified WHOIS information.

The individuals who choose to keep a domain private, will not stop keeping it 
private or have it any less private then what it is today. They will simply 
forge the WHOIS data and be even more secure then before, allowing no one to 
find them if they pay trough the right sources.

Todays procedure does at a bare minimum, provides some accurate information 
that can be retrieved and found behind the Whois Protection service if a 
problem occurs. Introducing this option will remove ALL accurate WHOIS data 
hidden behind the Whois Protection and replace it with random gibberish that is 
most likely true, just not true to the person behind the service / website but 
some random innocent old lady that lives at a random address.

Don't introduce pathetic stupid rules YOU CANNOT act on, rules you can't 
enforce and rules you can't oversee. And if ICANN thinks for one second that 
they can oversee and control all the information that is flowing with all the 
domains and validate its accuracy, then your HIGHLY mistaken and should go back 
to kindergarten.

Kind Regards,
Freddy Lundekvam
Full-time freelancer and advocate of keeping the internet public, free and 
accessible to everyone without a controlling entity that wants to monitor the 
world.