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

["Milton Mueller" <Mueller@xxxxxxx>]

Recently Mawaki Chango registered a domain name and put his Yahoo email address 
in the Whois. 
Before this, his yahoo account was free of spam. Since it was publicized in 
Whois, he has started to receive burdensome amounts of spam. 

I submit that on net, public availability of Whois contributes far more to 
spammers than the occasional inaccurate registration. 

And I do wish that the US government, which allegedly represents the people, 
would adopt a more even-handed position and one that pays at least some 
attention to the public interest and not just the special interests. 



>>> "Bret Fausett" <bfausett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 4/6/2006 11:36 PM >>>
This is not helpful absent a copy of the spam in question and/or the identity 
of the domain name. 
 
              -- Bret

From: owner-gnso-dow123@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-dow123@xxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Bruce Tonkin
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 4:28 PM
To: gnso-dow123@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Subject: [gnso-dow123] ICANN staff message to registrars about accuracy of 
registrant data



 

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