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

  • To: "'Tim Cole'" <tim.cole@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: [gnso-dow123] ICANN staff message to registrars about accuracy of registrant data
  • From: Ross Rader <ross@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 23:47:11 -0400

Tim -

While I understand that you are just the messenger, I feel compelled to point out what a waste of time it is to forward substantively null accusations such as this to the registrar mailing list. If there are specific issues that can be addressed, they should be brought to our attention. The message below is completely devoid of any useful information that anyone can act upon. Has anyone brought the Whois Data Problem Reporting System to Mr. Larue's attention? Have the domain details been forwarded to the appropriate registrar for actioning? Does the NTIA know that ICANN is neither a consumer protection agency, nor an enforcer for spam-hunters? Tim - to what extent have you raised awareness about the private-sector led cooperative efforts such as the reg-ops and cspam groups who deal with the operational fallout caused by whois inaccuracy and internet spam on a daily basis?

In Wellington we heard at great length that registrants were losing domain names because of poor registrar practices. We heard a vivid story about a domain which had been previously registered by a rape crisis center and purchased post-expiry and pointed at an advertisement for an internet pornography site. We have heard from Paul Twomey that the expiration policies are being used by registrars in a manner that was not intended and that the policy should be revisited.

In Wellington, when I proposed an examination of these issues at the Council meeting, neither the registrant community, nor the registry community was willing to endorse the creation of an issues report on this issue. Despite the handwaving at all other levels about the serious nature of the inequities being perpetrated by the registrar community, it was not possible to garner sufficient traction with the Council on this issue to move forward with an issues report.

The lesson that I took away from this is that while a lot of people don't mind publicly complaining about problems and laying them at the feet of the registrar community, very few are willing to actually help identify specific problems that can be solved, or working to solve general issues at a policy level.

With the greatest of respect, I would like to ask you to request that someone from ICANN followup with the NTIA and help them come to understand the answers to the questions I posed in the first paragraph of this message. It is imperative that they be made to understand that ICANN and the registrar community is part of the solution, not part of the problem. I hope that the private sector can count on the NTIA and the rest of the US Government to participate in the same way.

Regards,

-ross

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






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                       -rr








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