Thanks for sharing, Derek. The discovery process should provide very useful information that may buttress recommendations made in the CCT RT Report. -Carlton ============================== *Carlton A Samuels* *Mobile: 876-818-1799Strategy, Planning, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround* ============================= On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 8:32 AM, Derek Smythe <derek@aa419.org> wrote:

Worthwhile sharing as this touches on the heart of published ICANN policies:

https://wtop.com/animals-pets/2017/10/delta-probe-uncovers- criminal-scheme-to-scam-pet-owners/

This investigation will lead to mass abuse of domains, used to defraud thousands of people. Steve Baker of the US Better Business Bureau also did an international investigation and uncovered a massive can of worms. He addressed the pet scam side of it here: https://www.bbb.org/puppyscam/

Essentially the pet scam has trashed the legitimate portion of the pet sales sector of the internet. This despite the relevant registrars being made aware of the malicious domains with fake registration details and/or proxy abuse. It even led to one unsuccessful Compliance complaint, not really looked at by Compliance and closed where the registrar blatantly lied to protect themselves, despite whois data clearly belying said registrar's claims of innocence.

If certain registrars had really applied policies and lived up to it, we would not have seen the scourge of illegal activities and gross violation of third party rights in actionable harm.

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