Agreed. The same goes for privacy providers. If a privacy provider's contact details are invalid, they have no business in the market. In fact not being able to contact a privacy provider is a registrant and consumer risk, making a joke of the RAA, item 3.7.7.3. http://www.icann.org/en/registrars/ra-agreement-17may01.htm#3.7.7.3 Brendler, Beau wrote:
What's odd is not disclosing a real business address and phone number.<
Absolutely. Every set of Web publishing best practices that's been put forward, including WebWatch's own work, gives big weight to whether there's a real address and phone number displayed on the site. Even the FTC, in its consumer education tips, tells people not to do business with a Web site that doesn't at least display a physical address and phone number. It shouldn't be a stretch to require the same of registrar sites.
-----Original Message----- From: at-large-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:at-large-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of John L Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 8:40 PM To: Danny Younger Cc: at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org Subject: Re: [At-Large] [NA-Discuss] Where is the promised Comprehensive Review of ICANN Accreditation Processes?
This document requires the applicant to disclose certain details such as "business address of the entity applicant".
I would focus on this issue, not the place where they're incorporated. Literally millions of US companies are for tax reasons incorporated in Delaware, with the nominal Delaware address being a service company that handles incorporation. There's nothing odd about that.
What's odd is not disclosing a real business address and phone number. It strains credulity that a registrar which shows all signs of being in India is picking up its mail from mailboxes in Oregon.
Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.
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