I understand that but the client paid subject to the terms. If the terms of service of the registrar state that customers who violate the terms, including specifically the acceptable use policy, are subject to suspension or termination of the registrar’s services, which include the domain names in their account, I do not see what the legal issue is. Are you aware of a specific jurisdiction where this would be problematic under the applicable law? I also don’t think a court will be too sympathetic where the registrant used 20 out of the 100 domain names in its account for phishing or malware.
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From: Eberhard W Lisse via Gnso-dnsabuse-pdp <gnso-dnsabuse-pdp@icann.org>
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2026 12:55 AM
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Subject: [Gnso-dnsabuse-pdp] Re: Another numbers request.
I am coming at this from the ccTLD perspective, remember? Where we are used to having approximately 250 different jurisdictions (Civil and Common Law).
We are talking about guilt by association here, not (so much) proven DNS abuse. And, when this Policy filters down into the Registrar Agreement, does this material change work retrospectively?
The client paid (consideration) and the Registrar just removes additional 100 names. I am not sure how that would fly in Court.
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On Apr 13, 2026 at 01:54 +0200,
trachtenbergm@gtlaw.com, wrote:
Eberhart,
How would it be illegal for a registrar to suspend or terminate services when the registrar's terms have been violated if such remedy is described in the terms? This happens every day.
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Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2026 2:53 PM
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It would probably be plain illegal, at least cuase significant legal exposure.œ
el
On 2026-04-12 21:11, trachtenbergm--- via Gnso-dnsabuse-pdp wrote:
In this example of the customer that has 20 out of 100 domains which
are deemed to be abusive, then I disagree that suspending all of the
domain names in the account would constitute a disproportionate or
unjustified impacts on the registrant or end user.
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