[ga] ICANN Asked To Shut Down "Worst" Chinese Registrar

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  Seems ICANN's review process of non-US registrars has shown
some weaknessess and lack of good a proper oversight.

Anti-spam service Knujon has released reports
highlighting how certain registrars in the US and abroad have
consistently failed to live up to certain WHOIS-related obligations
under
ICANN's Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) â?? specifically, the

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/05/most_spam_sites_tied_to_a_hand_1.html

requirement that people or company registering domains provide valid
contact information. Now the firm is
http://www.thestandard.com/Will-ICANN-take-action-against-worst-Chinese-registrar

requesting that ICANN shut down the worst alleged offender, Xinnet Bei
Gong Da Software. According to Knujon, none of the WHOIS records in
a sample of 11,000 alleged spam sites registered through Xinnet and
reported
by Knujon to ICANN's Whois Data Problem Report System were corrected
in a six-month period ending in May 2008 and the Chinese registrar
continues
to register about 100 spam sites per day. In many cases,
http://weblog.infoworld.com/stratdev/archives/XinNet_failuretocomply.pdf
says
the Knujon  document (PDF), Xinnet does not have 'any Whois record data
for review while the sites are still active' and the spam sites further
promote
'seal abuse' by posting bogus BBB, Verisign, and other trusted industry
seals.
ICANN says it is investigating. ICANN has just posted a
http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-18jun08-en.htm draft
revised RAA that is open for public comment until August 4. However, the

wording of Section 3.7.8, governing registrars' obligations to check and

correct domain owners' contact information, hasn't changed.

Regards,

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