FYI Carlton Samuels --------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:52:35 -0700 From: "Garth Bruen at KnujOn" <gbruen@knujon.com> To: alac-announce@atlarge-lists.icann.org Cc: na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org Subject: [NA-Discuss] ICANN Registrar Audit Message-ID: < 20100620225235.4ea5342b4f0c5bb9c50429b56f1eb1a7.895cbc2d41.wbe@email00.secureserver.net
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hello all, I would like to invite you to review the results of our comprehensive audit of the gTLD Registrars as it relates to non-compliance and illicit activity: http://www.knujon.com/knujon_audit0610.pdf Since January KnujOn has been conducing its own review of Registrar contractual compliance and our findings are shocking. Among them: 162 Registrars may be in breach of the RAA, several of them seriously so As stated in our recent release, Who is Blocking WHOIS? http://www.circleid.com/posts/who_is_blocking_whois, over 80 Registrars are blocking, hiding or just providing poor WHOIS access Several Registrars have bad WHOIS for their own websites We've caught Registrars flat-out refusing services they're contracted to perform Several Registrars have not posted required customer policies on their websites There are a dozen or so terminated Registrars still selling gTLD and claiming ICANN accreditation As you may be aware, the Registrars have developed tools that help trademark infringement. We link these cases to criminal activity as well. And much more. -Garth ------------------------------------- What is the Doomsday Book? http://knujon.com/doomsday Garth Bruen gbruen@knujon.com http://www.knujon.com http://www.linkedin.com/pub/4/149/724 Linkedin Group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1870205 Blog: http://www.circleid.com/members/3296/ Twitter: @Knujon