[gnso-dow123] ICANN staff message to registrars about accuracy of registrant data

["Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: owner-registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tim Cole
Sent: Friday, 7 April 2006 3:17 AM
To: Registrars
Subject: [registrars] FW: sending letters to my government
representatives regarding ICANN failure to monitor


Dear Colleagues,
 
I have been asked to forward the email below by the NTIA in the U.S.
Department of Commerce.  It echoes a message that we hear often at ICANN
about Whois accuracy.
 
Regards,

Tim Cole
Chief Registrar Liaison
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers            


 

Fwd: sending letters to my government representatives regarding ICANN
failure to monitor


        To whom it may concern,

        I recently received SPAM to an email account from an entity
which whom I have no business or interest with.
        In looking up that entities domain in the whois lookup, it was
evident that the registrar for that domain had
        no rules for detecting even the simplest fraudulent
registration. What I saw was an invalid zipcode, city,
        and telephone contact number for the domain listed in the email.

        It is pathetic that there is NO facilities to address this, that
this 'event' even happened, and that the registrar
        of this domain is permitted to continue operation while not
having implemented basic validation of validity of
        it's customers.

        As I stated in the subject, I will be notifying my local, state
and federal government representatives of this
        failure and ask that provisions be mandated for each registrar
to validate customer data and that ICANN provide
        a policing policy and automated verification process for this.


        Doug LaRue