Re: [ga] Draft Anti-Phishing Best Practices Recommendations for Registrars

[Ross Rader <ross@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> "We launched the service Fraudit, as in Fraud Audit,
> for registrars to increase their data accuracy at the
> ICANN — at the 2002 ICANN meeting in Shanghai, China.
> To our surprise, registrars were somewhat angered to
> learn that someone had come up with a solution to the
> Whois data accuracy problem.

So you take Rick's commercially motivated (and equally misguided)  
speech and use that to turn Registrars into the bad guys?
Rick attempted to use the ICANN policy process to push his commercial  
solution. I think it was justified to tell the vendor to leave his  
solutions at home when he was making policy proposals. *That* is what  
we were angry about.
Did you know that every single registration I take is looked at by a  
human being to eliminate exactly the type of data that Rick is  
referring to? Why would I support an ICANN policy that forced me to  
pay Rick to use Rick's product to do what we were doing already? He  
attempted to hijack the process and got what he deserved.
Get your facts straight. I realize that you don't get to a lot of  
meetings and have to rely on various transcripts etc. to form your  
opinions, but you also have to realize that very little of what goes  
on is reflected in the public record - like it or not.

Ross Rader
Director, Retail Services
t. 416.538.5492
c. 416.828.8783
http://www.domaindirect.com

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