John excelent reply!!! I completelly agree with you, specially when you said Assuming you agree that ALAC is supposed to represent the interest of all > Internet users, and not just registrants, telling people to switch > registrars isn't a solution at all. Accurate WHOIS and responses to abuse > reports are consumer protection issues, so individual Internet users can > tell who they're talking to and doing business with, and we have some > chance of turning off domains operated by known criminals. kind regards Carlos Dionisio Aguirreabogado - Sarmiento 71 - 4to. 18 Cordoba - Argentina -*54-351-424-2123 / 423-5423www.derechoytecnologia.com.arhttp://ar.ageiadensi.org > Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 15:32:35 +0000> From: johnl@iecc.com> To: at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Subject: Re: [At-Large] Registrar violations, was Still more folk complaining about GoDaddy Transfer Policy Violations> > > I think the main answer here - before being one of ICANN or ALAC doing> > something - is to educate the customers/consumers that they have the> > option to spend their USD9.99/yr with another registrar.> > If I were a sleazy registrant, I would think it was wonderful that my > registrar made it impossible to find out anything about me, and charged > low, low, prices because they didn't pay their ICANN bills.> > Assuming you agree that ALAC is supposed to represent the interest of all > Internet users, and not just registrants, telling people to switch > registrars isn't a solution at all. Accurate WHOIS and responses to abuse > reports are consumer protection issues, so individual Internet users can > tell who they're talking to and doing business with, and we have some > chance of turning off domains operated by known criminals.> > > I also note most of the concerns against registrars are mostly for > > US-based ones.> > Of course. That's because there are more registrars in the US than in the > entire rest of the world. It's also because some registrars > claim to be in the US even though they're really somewhere else, such as > OnlineNIC which is really in China, South America Domains which is really > in the BVI, and Belgiumdomains (the famous name taster) which is really > in some hard to find offshore jurisdiction.> > Accredited registrars by country:> > 577 United States> 146 Canada> 23 Germany> 19 China> 17 India> 15 France> 14 Korea (South)> 14 Australia> 13 United Kingdom> 13 Spain> 10 Japan> 9 Russian Federation> 7 Israel> 6 Sweden> 6 Brazil> 5 Netherlands> 5 Italy> 4 Turkey> 4 Austria> 2 Virgin Islands (British)> 2 Ukraine> 2 Switzerland> 2 Singapore> 2 Norway> 2 New Zealand> 2 Malaysia> 2 Cayman Islands> 2 Bahamas> 1 United Arab Emirates> 1 Thailand> 1 Taiwan> 1 South Africa> 1 Senegal> 1 Romania> 1 Portugal> 1 Poland> 1 Philippines> 1 Pakistan> 1 Monaco> 1 Mexico> 1 Luxembourg> 1 Lithuania> 1 Liechtenstein> 1 Latvia> 1 Kuwait> 1 Jordan> 1 Ireland> 1 Hungary> 1 Hong Kong> 1 Gibraltar> 1 Finland> 1 Denmark> 1 Burundi> 1 Barbados> 1 Argentina> 1 Anguilla> > R's,> John> > _______________________________________________> At-Large mailing list> At-Large@atlarge-lists.icann.org> http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/at-large_atlarge-lists.icann...> > At-Large Official Site: http://atlarge.icann.org _________________________________________________________________ Permanece actualizado con MSN Noticias. Clic aquí http://noticias.cl.msn.com/