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Re: [wg-c] Principles for domain names v7
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On 28-Feb-2000 Jonathan Weinberg wrote:
> I understand this principle to mean that a gTLD registry must enforce
> the
> conditions of its charter, if any, against SLD registrants, so that the
> registry must refuse or delete the SLD registration of an entity that uses,
> or would use, the registration in a way inconsistent with "what [the gTLD]
> purports to stand for." It also means, I assume, that ICANN should take
> some sort of action against a gTLD that fails to engage in such
> enforcement. (If the principle doesn't mean those two things, I don't
> think it means anything.) This sort of monitoring is expensive.
As one of the few members of this list with some experience enforcing a domain
registry with some restrictions on use I can validate Jonathan's comments
above. When I was Director of the Abuse team for the defunct ml.org registry,
it was our job to remove domains whose registrant vioated the ml.org terms of
service. This included so called "warez" sites, where copyrighted software was
being distributed, as well as sites that advertised or promoted using "spam"
(however that term was defined on any given day by an internet community that
continued to expand the meaning as it saw fit). We had a full team devoted
this, and I can say with some authority, if a registry were to run a strict
enforcement policy, it would cost them a very pretty penny. We were busy just
investigating complaints, and never had the time to use the many other tools
that were at our disposal, including such simple ones as free text searches of
the domain database to find common words associated with the types of sites we
were after, etc. I cannot see how a registry can guarantee enforcement of
such a charter without driving the price up VERY VERY high. And it is for
this primary reason that I oppose any measure that would require ICANN to
police the registry for enforcement of someone's view of what a "charter"
should be.
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