RE: [gnso-whois-wg] Comments on WWG report draft 1.5

["David W. Maher" <dmaher@xxxxxxx>]

Why should the victims (the registrants) of a bad policy (WHOIS) be 
forced to pay for what belongs to them in the first place - their privacy?
The business users of the data should pay for it.
David Maher

At 10:10 PM 7/24/2007, you wrote:
> Comment on Section 6 - Access to Undisplayed Whois data, and the
> question of paying for access
>
> Some have suggested that these access methods may cause a substantial
> increase in costs to Registrars, and speculated on who would bear these
> costs.
>
> Only time will tell, but there may well be incremental costs that
> persist after Registrars and Accessors climb their initial learning
> curves.
>
> If Registrars are unwilling to bear these costs, then all Registrants
> should pay a nominal increase in domain name fees to cover such costs.
>
> Registrants are the beneficiaries of this change in Whois access policy,
> and should therefore bear the costs, if any.
>
>
> Steve DelBianco
> NetChoice
> Business Constituency member
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