Re: [ga] 467 Registrars

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Danny, Tim, and all former DNSO GA members or other interested
stakeholders/users,

  Danny, it is clear from the contact Email addresses alone on a number
of the so called "Accredited" Registrars that at least some of these
ICANN registrars are something other than "Real" registrars...
I noticed right of the bat, Mr. Feld seems to have an inordinate
number of Email addresses.  Several of which are from Domains
which are prolific spam outfits according to Spam house...

Danny Younger wrote:

>    Dear Tim,
>
> Based on the info at this URL
> http://www.icann.org/registrars/accreditation-qualified-list.html
> I have counted up 212 shell registrars so far -- here are the major
> ones:
>
> 98 --  showing contact name Jennifer Ross-Carriere jen@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> 47 -- showing contact name Gordy Seeley gseeley@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 39 -- showing contact names James Beaver & Martin Garthwaite
> 1-425-883-8860
> 7 -- showing phone number 1-650-331-0716
>
> As this is already around 45% of the accreditations, I would
> anticipate serious future problems if this scenario continues to play
> out with certain sets of registrars acting to game the system... Tim,
> could you perhaps tell us what ICANN's view is on this matter...
>
> Best regards,
> Danny Younger

Regards,

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