Late 2008: ICANN Still Broken By Marc Handelman on October 10th, 2008 http://infosecurity.us/?p=2198 Further proof that ICANN is broken comes from The Industry Standard’s Cyndy Aleo-Carreira insightful write-up of a recent ICANN wrist slap (…don’t forget the ICANN 'At-Large Members' that contribute to the incompetence exhibited by the organization).
From the post: "In what KnujOn claims is a "victory," ICANN sent two breach notices to domain registrars Joker.com and DNS.com.cn, stating that the two companies had "failed to comply with Section 3.7.8 of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) which requires registrars to take “reasonable steps to investigate” Whois inaccuracy claims."
The two registrars, with nearly one million domains registered between them, have both been accused of allowing domains to be registered with incomplete or false WHOIS information, a clear violation of ICANN policy. Of course, in typical ICANN fashion, violators take a long time to get their wrist slap. According to the ICANN link, violations were first discovered last November, with "Notices of Concern" sent in May, and now a "Breach Notice" was sent giving the registrars 15 additional days before "termination proceedings begin."