Re: [ga] Advisory: Availability of Bulk Transfers in Individual gTLDs

[Danny Younger <dannyyounger@xxxxxxxxx>]

Marika,

One of my concerns has been that registrars are not required to escrow 
beneficial registrant data.  The Registrar Data Escrow Specifications state (1):

4.15 Registrars that allow customers to register domain names through
Whois privacy or proxy services that incidentally prevent escrow of the
beneficial domain name users' contact information may include
additional fields in the text file to escrow the names, addresses,
telephone/fax numbers, and email addresses of the beneficial users.
Registrars that elect not to deposit such beneficial user information will
be not be licensed use of ICANN's registrar data escrow logo.

Perhaps you could provide us with some data that indicates the degree to which 
underlying beneficial data is actually being escrowed.  Without all of the data 
being escrowed, how can you possibly be making the claim that ICANN gathers all 
possible data to protect registrants?

(1)  http://www.icann.org/en/rde/rde-specs-09nov07.pdf