Yet another article on domain name abuses (1). At one point the article quotes Ram Mohan as saying, "ICANN, which has overall responsibility for the Whois database of registration information, has to find a way to validate the entries." Perhaps Ram wasn't aware that the very first RAA (1999) contained this language: "Registrar shall abide by any ICANN-adopted policies requiring reasonable and commercially practicable (a) verification, at the time of registration, of contact information associated with an SLD registration sponsored by Registrar or (b) periodic re-verification of such information." Time-of-registration-whois-verification is a policy that is long overdue. Is the at-large prepared to bring this issue forward? (1) http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=B809FA70-1A64-67EA-E4B5B30FF36D196B