"This independent audit of ICANN Registrar adherence and compliance to the Registrar Accreditation Agreement has revealed that162 Registrars may be in breach of their contracts for various reasons. The reasons are not trivial, they range from blocking and manipulating WHOIS access to falsifying applications to knowingly facilitating criminal traffic. This report takes a deep look at the relationships between registration fraud, DNS manipulation, spam, compliance failure and the growing trade in illicit drugs online. We also offer recommendations to correct these problems."
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] ICANN Registrar Audit From: Dharma Dailey <dharma@ethoswireless.com> Date: Mon, June 21, 2010 1:48 pm To: Garth Bruen at KnujOn <gbruen@knujon.com> Cc: alac-announce@atlarge-lists.icann.org, na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org
Garth,
This is really something. Do you have an executive summary to point to or circulate?
On Jun 21, 2010, at 1:52 AM, Garth Bruen at KnujOn wrote:
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
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