John Levine wrote:
I have no idea what ALAC cares about.
Um, someone using your address just said it was the handful registrants with bogus e-mail addresses. rubbish
John, your point is an aunt sally. The fact remains that abuse happens with or without a domain name. Cyber bullying is not something associated particularly with the ownership or control of a DNS record for instance.
You know, I deal daily with actual researchers and law enforcement who deal with actual crime and abuse, and they use WHOIS information, including the e-mail address all the time. Cyber bullying is one issue they sometimes deal with, and they certainly contact the operators of the domains the bullies ues.
Really? You are out by a long way on this. Most "bad actors" are not registrants themselves they are using or passing through services that are resolved using a domain name or possibly several.
Your argument appears to be that if a measure isn't 100% effective at stopping abuse, or if it has any side effects at all (keeping in mind that 99.6% of domains are not affected by this issue), we shouldn't bother. If that's not it, please clarify.
I am saying that a registrant of a domain name does not equate to responsibility for content on the Internet. It might but it also very likely does not. In fact if your statistic is correct that 99.9% of people using the Internet do not themselves own or control a domain name it would sort of prove my point. Regards,
John Levine, john.levine@cauce.org CAUCE North America
Christian
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