Nov. 22, 2011
5:16 p.m.
Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada Em: evan at telly dot org Sk: evanleibovitch Tw: el56 On 22 November 2011 11:44, Patrick Vande Walle <patrick@vande-walle.eu>wrote:
In any case, criminals will continue to put invalid data in the WHOIS, whether thick or thin. Cheating on identity is nothing new.
Yes. But clearly ICANN complaince has neither the resources nor the will to prevent this. It ought to be brought to the realm of conventional laws such as fraud. If registrars added a big warning in red letters on their web site saying
so, rather than 10 pages long legalese, they would lose a lot of potential sales in gTLDs.
Maximizing sales of gTLDs is not, as far as I know, a strategic objective of the At-Large Community. - Evan