Re: [gnso-raa-b] RAA B recommendations

["Michele Neylon :: Blacknight" <michele@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5 Jan 2010, at 17:32, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy wrote:

> Hello
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> 1     Cybersquatting
> 1.1     Prohibition on Registrar Cybersquatting     
> 2     Front-Running
> 2.1   Prohibition of Front-Running
> 3     Registrar Warehousing
> 3.1   Prohibition of  Registrar warehousing or speculation 
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> As a recommendation pertaining to these issues, would all Accredited 
> Registrars consider incorporating a jointly owned company as a Common 
> Registrar for all Registrars, their Associate businesses, Resellers to 
> register the domain names that they wish to register for legitimate reasons ? 
>  This could make the 'insider' transactions transparent as also allow those 
> Registrars with good business practices to monitor excessive activities of 
> erring Registrars and Resellers. This entity as an Inter-Registrar could be 
> jointly owned and jointly controlled and would establish the required 
> conventions among Registrars as acts of self-regulation.


I can't speak for all registrars, but speaking for us, we would be opposed to 
this proposal



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> 4.6 Registrars to use an auditable tracking system for complaints

Auditable by whom?


> 5.4 ICANN to provide  tracking system for registrar complaints 
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> Registrant's complaints, right at the time of filing,  could go to a Central 
> System, either managed by ICANN or by All Registrars. This could enable a 
> uniform format for Registrant's Complaints, a uniform Response behavior by 
> the Community of Registrars towards complaints and would  further Uniform 
> Dispute Resolution. The complaint form embedded in Registrars' websites have 
> to have a common design with the data set to be sent to the Central System 
> with a copy to the Registrar / Reseller.
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> 7.4   Additional Information to be collected related to registrations
> 7.5  Disclosure of WHOIS to law enforcement
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> If sufficient debates and discussions have already taken place on what 
> information is absolutely necessary for domain records and what to disclose 
> to the law and order agencies and on what circumstances,  then ICANN could 
> provide a uniform format for Registrars and Resellers to collect the 
> information from Registrants and establish secure storage systems to store 
> all the data in a manner that the Registrant's privacy is not compromised. 
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> Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
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> Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
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Mr Michele Neylon
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