Re: [ga] another twist on whois (long)

[Vittorio Bertola <vb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dena Whitebirch ha scritto:
> This post will likely bring up a ton of interrelated issues that 
> although I tried, I couldn't figure how to separate for discussion 
> purposes.  I guess it's a bit like the internet...one thing connects to 
> the rest.

Your story is interesting, though not so uncommon, so I have forwarded 
the post to the ICANN Board list.

ICANN si not the primary subject in this kind of problems, but I am 
wondering whether there could actually be some consumer protection 
measures that ICANN could take: for example it could add to the 
registrar accreditation agreements a clause that requires them to force 
their resellers to expose certain things to final registrants (such as, 
who is the actual registrar company) or to avoid others (such as using 
terms like "registration" unless there is an actual registration in the 
final customer's name). Even if compliance of these clauses would be a 
responsibility of the reseller only, and if ICANN wouldn't usually be in 
the position to enforce them, at least they would provide a benchmark of 
"good practice", and something that registrants could use in their 
favour in the case of a controversy.

Regards,
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