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  • From: "Elana Broitman" <ebroitman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 10:09:22 -0400
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  • Thread-topic: Lawmakers Domain name oversight too lax CNET News.com
Please note the pressure on ICANN to require more whois verification mandates.  This underscores the need for a registrar response so that law makers understand the difficulties, cost and ultimate ineffectiveness of additional requirements.  I will post shortly a draft response to submit for the record.  It is based on the input received from registrars.  Please review and comment by close of business Monday, as the House Committee must receive it by Wednesday morning.

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<B>Spammers, scammers and child pornographers can hide easily on the Internet, because regulators allow them to register under false names with stolen credit cards, lawmakers and technology experts said Thursday.</B>
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One day after U.S. attorneys charged a Miami man with <a href="/2100-1025-5071133.html?tag=nl" title="Man arrested in domain deceit -- Wednesday, Sep 3, 2003">using misspelled domain names to direct Web surfers to pornography sites</a>, lawmakers said the manner in which domain name sellers collect information about their customers is too lax. 
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A new law to require accurate customer data might be necessary because the U.S. Department of Commerce and other oversight bodies have not been doing their job, lawmakers on the U.S. House of Representatives intellectual-property subcommittee said. 
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"I'm disappointed with the failure of the marketplace and regulators to deal with this problem. A legislative solution seems necessary," California Democratic Rep. Howard Berman said. 
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The Commerce Department will seek to require greater accountability from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, when it renews <a href="/2100-1028-1019438.html?tag=nl" title="Bill challenges ICANN, VeriSign -- Thursday, Jun 19, 2003">ICANN's authority to oversee the domain name system</a> this fall, a Commerce Department official said. 
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Internet domain name sellers require customers to submit their names, addresses, telephone numbers and other contact information into what is known as a <a href="/2100-1023-269829.html?tag=nl" title="Whois at heart of congressional hearings -- Wednesday, Jul 11, 2001">Whois</a> database. But domain name sellers, or registrars, rarely check to ensure that this information is accurate, making it easier for child pornographers, identity thieves and other scam artists to operate online, witnesses said. 
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Often, it is in the registrar's interest to turn a blind eye to Whois entries to attract porn site operators, who register thousands of domain names at a time, Harvard University researcher Ben Edelman said. 
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"The Whois <a href="http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/whois/index.jhtml";>database</a> is substantially fiction," Edelman said, noting that as much as 10 percent of the Internet's 30 million domain names may be registered under false names. 
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ICANN management is taking steps to tackle the problem, Commerce Department General Counsel Theodore Kassinger said. 
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"There's not a real seriousness of intent either by ICANN or the Department of Commerce to have an accurate Whois database," the Texas Republican said.
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