Comments on "commercial activity" and WHOIS protection services

[Ti Nguyen <compdude22@xxxxxxxxx>]

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):

I urge you to respect internet users' rights to privacy and due process.
- Everyone deserves the right to privacy, especially when using the
Internet.
 - No one'r personal information should be revealed without a court order
or their consent, regardless of wherever or whomever the request originates
from.
 - Users of WHOIS protection services, by their very act of subscribing to
such, do not want nor consent to having their information revealed.
 - The practical uses of the WHOIS database is not compromised by allowing
WHOIS protection services. Identification of a unique domain owner is
perfectly doable and actively done. Contacting a domain owner is still as
convenient and reliable because of forwarding performed by these services.
 - Even with the current services, spammer and other can still use the
information from the WHOIS database to send unsolicited advertisements and
the like. Removing privacy barriers by prohibiting protection services
would exacerbate the issue with no real benefit to existing and future
domain owners.

I believe that private information, when not necessary to ensure the
stability and reliability of the Internet system, should be kept private.
Thank you.

-- 
Ti Nguyen
compdude22@xxxxxxxxx