Re: [ga] another twist on whois (long)
Vittorio Bertola wrote: 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: ICANN's entire TLD policy is based on consumer protection - ICANN claims that it has to deeply regulate the domain name industry so that domain name consumers (you and me) won't be injured by names resolving in surprising ways. That's why ICANN limits TLDs. .xxx is yet another example of consumer protection, as are all of the chartered/sponsored TLDs - the theory that ICANN has espoused is such constraints are needed to protect the "quality" of the names that users might type in URL's. Read ICANN's statement about competing roots - it is nothing more than a statement that ICANN must enforce singularity of names to protect consumer expectations. ICANN has long been a consumer protection body, but it has not asked the consumers whether they want protection. Nor has it the legal authority to act in that role, yet it does it. --karl--
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