[council] GAC letter on Geographic Names

["Zahid Jamil" <zahid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Of much concern to me is:

 

"In relation to potential misuse of the respective names on the second
level:

 

In the event that a government or relevant public authority (or the GAC)
notifies ICANN that there is misuse of any second level domain name in
relation to the provisions of article 2 of the GAC principles, ICANN shall
notify the registry and request the suspension of the said name pending the
withdrawal of the objection by the relevant government. GAC considers that
the respect for such provisions and procedures needs to be a contractual
obligation on the part of the registry."

 

So government or 'relevant public authority' get a complete veto over any
domain name and there isn't even a the possibility of a dispute resolution
process.  So governments or 'relevant public authority''s could abuse this.
this is not transparent.

 

Zahid Jamil

Barrister-at-law

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