Many social networks take down accounts based solely on report of violations of Terms Of Services. I guess as long as a notice is served (your domain is terminated because violation of TOS, or better your domain will be terminated in 24 hours due to violation of TOS) and the domain owner has a right to answer the allegations or have its day in court, I'm cool with the process. May be a bit like copyright take down notices, once notified, and after say 10 days, the registry becomes responsible for keeping the domain? ----- Original Message ----- From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> To: "Karl Auerbach" <karl@cavebear.com> Cc: "At-Large Worldwide" <at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Sent: Wednesday, 29 April, 2009 9:00:36 PM (GMT+1100) Auto-Detected Subject: Re: [At-Large] Definition of registration abuse

As long as it takes. Otherwise we will have a system in which a mere accusation is sufficient.

Do you really think it is a good idea to require a court case and a trial to take down a phish site pretending to be Paypal or the Bank of America? You're quite right that among ICANN's less attractive qualities is its tendency to invent half-assed processes dominated by lobbyists. On the other hand, for every controversial high profile domain takedown, there must be a thousand routine phish squashes. If there's no formal process to do that, there will be informal processes, and they're even more capricious than ICANN. Be careful what you wish for. 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