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ICANN Set To Review Accreditation Policy

Posted by Zonk on Thu Mar 22, 2007 04:17 PM
from the at-least-something-will-come-of-this dept.
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tinkertim writes "ICANN is re-evaluating the scope and purpose of its accreditations, apparently sparked by the recent collapse of garage domain name registrar Registerfly. In a press release dated March 21, 2007, President and CEO of ICANN, Dr Paul Twomey is quoted as saying : 'What has happened to registrants with RegisterFly.com has made it clear there must be comprehensive review of the registrar accreditation process and the content of the RAA.' Dr. Twomey is blaming (in part) 'weaknesses in the RAA' for severe and undue hardships that many registrants encountered when trying to transfer names away from the failing registrar, Registerfly. Many new points to be discussed include allowing registrants to view the performance of registrars in an 'independent comparative way', as well as new language to allow ICANN to forcibly intercede in the face of wide spread, persistent and consistent complaints. 10 good points for discussion are listed by Dr. Twomey in the release, who invites all ICANN stakeholders to participate in re-evaluating the RAA. Registerfly, the catalyst for this re-write does not officially lose their accredited status until March 31, 2007, and continues to display the ICANN seal on their web site."

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  • 70Gs (Score:1)

    by mastershake_phd (1050150) on Thursday March 22 2007, @04:28PM (#18450091)
    (http://freedomsforums.com/)
    You already need $70,000 just to become a registrar, is making the requirements any higher going to help?

  • Harumph. (Score:2)

    by Creepy Crawler (680178) on Thursday March 22 2007, @04:43PM (#18450285)
    The more and more I hear about Registrars and ICANT, the more I hate them.

    I wonder what it'd take to develop a new registry for domain names. Just something to get us away from the current set of registrars and their ilk. .edu and .gov can handle things rather well. Why not .com? That's right... That commerical aspect.
    • Re:Harumph. by cswiger (Score:1) Thursday March 22 2007, @05:34PM
    • Re:Harumph. by stry_cat (Score:2) Friday March 23 2007, @07:51AM

  • Proxy registrations (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Baricom (763970) on Thursday March 22 2007, @04:43PM (#18450295)
    Personally, my biggest concern about the proposed agenda is discussions about proxy registrations. I hold proxy registrations on three domains, and I feel it's important to me -- important enough that I would seriously consider dropping my domains if they were done away with.

    Proxy registrations are necessary because of what I consider a flaw with domain name registration as it exists today. You should NOT require personal domain owners to broadcast their street address, home phone number, and e-mail address to the world via WHOIS. It's an extreme privacy breach.

    Instead, I would suggest that individuals (not businesses) be permitted to hide their registrations but remain the legal owners. This would be analogous to the way PO boxes are rented - businesses must consent to the release of their street address when renting, while individuals need not.

  • Important issues to consider (Score:2, Insightful)

    by davidwr (791652) on Thursday March 22 2007, @05:03PM (#18450621)
    (http://slashdot.org/~davidwr/journal/ | Last Journal: Friday November 09, @09:19PM)
    • Will there be "provisional accreditation" for registrars who are either very new or who have failed to meet all the requirements for full accreditation but are improving? Will these registrars be required to identify themselves as less-than-fully-accredited?
    • Will every registrar have an "involuntary end-of-life" plan, and is funding backed by a bond or insurance policy?
    • Will every registrar have a disaster-recovery plan if its data center or a substantial number of employees become unavailable, say, due to war?
    • Will "proxied" registrations be escrowed and will the escrow agent have similar end-of-life and disaster-recovery plans?
    • Will there be provisions to put an expiring domain on "indefinite hold," unavailable to squatters, if it is expiring due to registrar negligence?
    • Will there be provisions to alert search engines when a domain really expires, so they can either purge their data or segregate it from data put in by the new domain owner?
    • Will there be provisions to make all expiring domains "dark" for a minimum length of time, say, 7 or 30 days after expiration, to prevent the illusion of continuity when none exists? I think there is something like that now.

  • prohibiting registrar to... (Score:2)

    by wikes82 (940042) on Friday March 23 2007, @12:17AM (#18454901)
    (http://s3u.net/)
    suspend domain name because myspace ask them to do so.... http://seclists.org/nmap-hackers/2007/0000.html [seclists.org]
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