Re: [ga] Care needed over the .travel Registry Agreement

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric and all former DNSO GA members or other interested
stakeholders/users,

  Evidently an number of registrants of .pro and .travel care as it
seems many
have expressed concerns and registered complaints...

  Fraudulent business practices should never be allowed to stand.
It would appear that in the .pro and .Travel name spaces/sTLD's
a form of fraud is being perpetrated.  Whom should be held?
accountable?  The registry?  The registrar?  ICANN?

Hugh Dierker wrote:

>   Richard,
>
> Let me ask it simply, who cares?
>
> I mean I do, but who cares? if I do? What impact does this have.
> Certainly all who spend money in these spaces know that the rules are
> funny and who cares?
>
> e
>
> Richard Henderson <richardhenderson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I wonder what provisions ICANN propose to make to ensure that a
> restricted TLD like .travel does not get "invaded" by uncertified
> "gatecrashers" like the thousands who have obtained domains in recent
> weeks from another restricted TLD: .pro?
>
> The registrar EnCirca used a loophole in the ICANN Registry Agreement
> to act as "proxy registrant" for thousands of customers, so that the
> applicants could avoid the rigorous checks and authorisations which
> were meant to "restrict" the TLD to certain categories of users.
>
> Now we have the prospect of .travel, also intended to be restricted to
> authorised categories of people, but what is there to stop the same
> device being used to get round the "roadblock", with one eligible
> entity using their eligibility to act as "proxy registrant" to
> thousands of unchecked and unauthorised domain speculators and, in
> theory, the entire human race?
>
> This seems a matter which needs urgent attention over the drafting of
> the agreement, or history may repeat itself, and the whole concept of
> "restricted TLDs" will be called into question.
>
> I would also argue that ICANN should reserve the right, in the wording
> of the Agreement, to enforce amendments to this Agreement, where it
> considers that the integrity and stability of the registry is
> threatened - see, for example, the wording for the .us TLD:
>
> http://www.nic.us/registrars/accreditation/usTLD_Administra
> orRegistrar_Agreement.pdf
>
> "usTLD Administrator reserves the right to deny, cancel or transfer
> any registration that it deems necessary, in its discretion; (1) to
> protect the integrity and stability of the registry" (my thanks to the
> ICANN director who pointed this up to me earlier this week, stressing
> the word "Integrity")
>
> I would argue that ICANN should reserve the right, not only to cancel
> registrations that undermine the integrity of the TLD and its
> Agreement, but also the right to intervene and amend the Registry
> Agreement itself, where blatant loopholes are discovered and
> exploited. This right of intervention and amendment should be a
> unilateral right, if the TLD itself will not co-operate.
>
> Yrs,
>
> Richard Henderson

Regards,

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