[ga] Re: [RAA-WG] Transparency required

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

Derek and all,

  I for one agree fully here.  In fact the direct line phone numbers
for the officers of the Registrar as well as personal mailing addresses,
P.O. Boxes would be fine here, and addresses for legal service
should also be required and publicly available on their Web sites
in PLAIN VIEW.

  But all this is nothing new to have been repeatedly requested by
thousands of registrants, financial institutions, credit card companies,
ect., ect., ad nausium.  This information has been requested to be
plainly publicly available on these Registrars AND Registries web
sites of nearly 5 years now.  Yet ICANN has refused along with
the Registrars and Registries to make such an amendment to the
RAA's accordingly, and DOC/NTIA hasn't insisted on this strongly
enough either.  As a result hundreds of thousands of Registrants
have been duped, misrepresented, double charged, unable to get
the proper corrections to their registration information effected, sufered
massive fraud and abuse without ability to redress, seen whole Registrars
go under without even having a clue of those registrars being in any
trouble.  Further still non-registrant users have had to put up with
spam, phishing, duping, being sent unwanted child poronography from
hijacked Domain names and/or IP addresses, and the list of verious
other forms of fraud and abuse are nearly endless.  Such demonstrates
that ICANN's leadership has been, and continues to be far less than
ligitimate, let alone ethical.

And so the pyramid scheme that is ICANN sadly trudges on, and now
the ALAC aids and abets/enables same to continue unchallanged...

Derek Smythe wrote:

> Hi Everybody
>
> Please see http://www.knujon.com/news.html#11022008 - End Registrar
> Secrecy - You Can Help!
>
> 'A review of the RAA is currently underway and KnujOn is seeking that
> the following language (or equivalent) be added to the RAA:
>
> "All Accredited Registrars must submit main office location, including
> country, to be publicly disclosed in ICANN web directory. Post Office
> boxes, Incorporation addresses, and mail-forwarding locations will not
> be acceptable. Registrars must also provide for public display the name
> of CEO or President. ICANN must be notified within 30 days of a location
> or presiding officer change.â?? '
>
> I support this call for transparency. Registrants certainly have the
> right to know who they are dealing with, where their credit card details
> will go, who will be giving them support etc.
>
> I myself have had occasion to talk to a support team in Eastern Europe
> for a domain that was not functioning, for a registrar supposedly in the
> USA, then waiting for European day staff to arrive to finally resolve
> the issue.
>
> Additionally, I would also like to know where to whom my credit card
> details and other personal information will go if I register a domain,
> certainly I have this right? As can be seen from the above article on
> KnujOn, this is an extremely valid point.
>
> By the same token, I believe a similar version of the above provision
> should apply to providers of privacy services. How can the current RAA,
> item 3.7.7.3,  be applied without this information?
> http://www.icann.org/en/registrars/ra-agreement-17may01.htm#3.7.7.3
>
> Without this information, we will forever be fighting a battle of smoke
> and mirrors, yet what is needed is trust and honesty.
>
> Thank you
>
> Derek Smythe
>
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