Hi, On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Antony Van Couvering <avc@avc.vc> wrote: Personally I have a hard time justifying a regime that would treat sellers of domain names as criminal accomplices, or impose on them a duty of verification that doesn't exist for ISPs, or email providers, or IP address providers. on that note, there IS a "proposal" sent to ICANN (altho not via normal channels) to create "IP address registrars" AND make them subject to the same kind of rules that domain registrars must follow: http://icann.org/en/correspondence/statement-ip-address-registrar-accreditat... Not sent via normal channels, as they don't think they will get a fair hearing from the ASO: http://icann.org/en/correspondence/holtzman-to-jeffrey-02mar11-en.pdf I imagine At-Large might want to weigh in on this at some point? -- Cheers, McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel