John, We all know that ICANN has to have a gun to its head to take any action against any registrar. We know from their own documents that ICANN took no action, except writing letters, against Network Solutions when it had domain names registered with an address of 123 Yellow Brick Road, Oz, Kansas. We know that many registrars provide private registrations to spammers. One registrar had been sued for providing this service to a spammer. Now Tucows is being sued for providing this service to a registrar. ICANN has been aware of both registrars providing this service to spammers, but did nothing. I know of an attorney who is considering suing ICANN for either the refusal or inability to take action.
Similarly, in cases such as you mention, ICANN might have to use the harder-to-prove provisions in its contracts.
I read the question somewhat differently -- would ICANN have any interest in turning off registrars who are paying their bills? I'm aware of at least one registrar (Dynamic Dolphin) whose owner has a felony conviction for receiving stolen property, but ICANN appears not to care.
R's, John
Hi all
I have a strange question.
We all know that the registrar EstDomains is no more based upon certain aspects that were revealed relating to it's director's past.
Of course this was in line with the behavioral requirements to become and stay a registrar.
Now what if a registrar is in a country where cybercrime is a non issue and the registrar is actively being abused or maybe even abusing his position for cybercrime; scam websites, botnets, spamming and CP etc - in fact every form of deviant net behavior not only frowned upon, but would make the reason EstDomains was suspended look like a walk in the park, with many of the acts being advertised as okay.
Domains are set up such as to frustrate law enforcement and lawyers.
How to handle this situation if this situation is being exploited to actively attract the money and business of international cyber criminals who in turn prey upon innocent netizens and central to this is domains? Then to crown it all, ICANN is being used to give the registrar credibility on the same pages attracting cyber criminals!
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