April 29, 2009
9 a.m.
As long as it takes. Otherwise we will have a system in which a mere accusation is sufficient.
Do you really think it is a good idea to require a court case and a trial to take down a phish site pretending to be Paypal or the Bank of America? You're quite right that among ICANN's less attractive qualities is its tendency to invent half-assed processes dominated by lobbyists. On the other hand, for every controversial high profile domain takedown, there must be a thousand routine phish squashes. If there's no formal process to do that, there will be informal processes, and they're even more capricious than ICANN. Be careful what you wish for. R's, John