Getting on to issues other than the formation of the NA-Ralo.... If ALAC has as its function to bring the voice of user to ICANN, then let us also discuss issues of concern to users. Case in point, Fyodor Vaskovich, a fellow CPSR board member had his site shut down by the domain name registrar GoDaddy. Facts are below.. My question - should ALAC and the user community involved in ICANN take up the issue of domain take downs by Registrars? If so - Were the actions taken by GoDaddy correct? If not, what can we do - and how can it be raised at the next meeting in Lisbon this coming March. I look forward to everyone's comments, specifically how we might (as a collective group) help raise this issue inside the ICANN community. regards Robert Guerra -- Survey: Are domain registrars free-speech friendly? http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6155614.html Go Daddy's controversial decision last week to suspend the domain name of a popular computer security Web site did more than merely raise questions about the extent of free speech on today's Internet. It also prompted owners of domain names to wonder about the reliability of their own registrars--and whether the domains they own are safe from suspension in the absence of a court order. -- The CPSR Compiler - January 2007 http://www.cpsr.org/news/compiler/2007/compiler200701 [snipped] Domain Registrar GoDaddy Suspends Popular Security Site Based on Complaint from MySpace.Com On Wednesday, January 24, GoDaddy shut down the domain name of popular security mailing list archive SecLists.Org based on an informal complaint from MySpace.Com. SecLists.Org is run by CPSR board member and security researcher Fyodor Vaskovich. Responding to complaints that they only gave Fyodor 52 seconds of notice between leaving him a voicemail and suspending the domain, GoDaddy general counsel Christina Jones was quoted in Wired saying "I think the fact that we gave him notice at all was pretty generous". In a News.Com article about the situation, she noted that in their terms of service, GoDaddy "reserves the right to terminate your access to the services at any time, without notice, for any reason whatsoever". The offending content was one of 250,000 pages posted by 3rd party users to the site, and a similar shutdown could happen to any web site which accepts user generated content such as forum posting or blog comments. In response, Fyodor launched the site http://NoDaddy.Com to detail this and other domain registration abuses by GoDaddy. CPSR contends that web content complaints are best dealt with at the site owner and web hosting provider level. Domain registrars have no control over the content of web sites pointed to by a domain name, and should not take responsibility for policing those web sites. If they do so anyway, registrars should at least provide the domain owner a chance to refute or address the complaint before shutting down domains without any sort of court order. The incident with SecLists.Org was widely reported. Here are some of the better articles: http://news.com.com/GoDaddy+pulls+security+site+after+MySpace +complaints/2100-1025_3-6153607.html http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/26/1542218&threshold=4 http://domainnamewire.com/2007/01/26/godaddy-faces-pr-nightmare-over- domain-suspension/ http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/01/godaddy_defends.html http://www.politechbot.com/2007/01/26/godaddy-pull-plug/ http://www.thewhir.com/blogs/Isabel-Wang/index.cfm/2007/1/26/GoDaddy- Takes-Down-Seclists