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Username: romulus
Date/Time: Fri, June 2, 2000 at 5:21 PM GMT
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Subject: matter of public record?

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Do you think it would be very difficult for the electorate to uncover a candidate's registered DNs on its own?

Even if a candidate "disclosed" their domains, I've no doubt that there will be people working independently to verify the fullness of their disclosure. Which IMO makes asking the candidate to disclose their DNs sort of redundant.

I agree that the virtuous candidate would do so anyway, but mandating it seems pointless. There's no benefit to a cybersquatter to fully disclose the domains owned by e.g. a company they own or manage. If cybersquatting reflects poor ethics as you suggest, what makes you think such a person would be ethical enough to fully disclose all their domains, knowing that disclosure would work against them anyway?

Perhaps instead it should be the responsibility of the electoral committee to collect such background information for each candidate.
 


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