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ICANN - Respect Our Privacy
- To: comments-ppsai-initial-05may15@xxxxxxxxx
- Subject: ICANN - Respect Our Privacy
- From: Erik Popp <epopp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 21:55:00 +0000 (UTC)
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 can usually tell when a politician or bureaucrat has an ulterior
motive, since when they are, they sell "solutions" that either don't
solve the problem that they claim to solve, or solve it very
inefficiently. This is one of those "solutions".
The problem is very real: criminals can get domain names, without having
to verify who they really are. Even though they're supposed to give
their real contact info when they sign up, they can lie. They can then
scam people, and it's hard for most people to tell the difference
between legitimate businesses and fakes. But forcing everyone to remove
privacy services, and publicize their real contact info in the whois
database doesn't fix that. The data is still available, it's just
limited to those with a court order. I argue that it should stay that way.
The problem with forcing everyone to publish their real contact info in
a public database is that it makes life easier for spammers. They can
grab the real contact info of everyone who owns a domain.
If you're trying to protect people from scams, and make criminals' lives
harder, good. But find another way to do it - one that doesn't do more
harm than good.
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