The Chair of the NCUC has asked that the mail below be circulated on the Council list. Thank you. Glen -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Recent Actions By Go Daddy Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:53:30 -0500 I would like to draw attention to the recent actions of the Go Daddy registrar in its decision to pull a .org domain name at the request of social networking site myspace.com because a third party had placed on the site a list of passwords and accounts of myspace users. http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6153607.html This strikes me as a serious abuse of power by a registrar, and should alarm the users of this constituency. If registrars can exercise such unrestrained authority over registrants, then no controversial speaker is safe. If there is not already a procedure for addressing this, I would strongly urge this constituency to take appropriate action. Harold Feld -- Carlos A. Afonso diretor de planejamento Rits - Rede de Informações para o Terceiro Setor *************************************************************** Projeto Sacix - Apoio técnico a iniciativas de inclusão digital com software livre, mantido pela Rits em colaboração com o Coletivo Digital. Para mais informações: www.sacix.org.br www.rits.org.br www.coletivodigital.org.br *************************************************************** -- Glen de Saint Géry GNSO Secretariat - ICANN gnso.secretariat[at]gnso.icann.org http://gnso.icann.org