Comments on: Have an opinion on where ICANN should spend its money?

By: Kelechi Okorie

Kelechi Okorie — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:06:14 +0000

Spend more money in developing countries like Nigeria, creating awareness on the importance of the internet. The penetration of the internet here is still nothing to right home about. Let these people know that it can be a tool to even het out of poverty.

By: Stacy Burnette

Stacy Burnette — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:27:01 +0000

Thank you for your comment, L Sprint.

We have and continue to take steps to address registrar business conduct that is not compliant with the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA). While spam is a huge concern for ICANN and the entire Internet community, the organization’s mission does not include resolving consumer complaints that fall outside of the RAA, such as spam complaints. These sorts of complaints are best addressed by private sector agencies involved in addressing consumer complaints (i.e. The Better Business Bureau http://www.bbb.org/), by law enforcement agencies or by governmental consumer protection entities (i.e. The International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network http://www.icpen.org/).

The Contractual Compliance team does have systems already in place to address domain name inaccuracy, ranging from issuing breach notices to termination of the registrar’s RAA, in rare instances where the registrar does not satisfactorily remedy the problem. For more information, please go here: http://www.icann.org/en/compliance/.

In addition, the Compliance department has undertaken several Whois activities to increase domain name Whois Accuracy. Please find a listing below.

• A Whois Accuracy Study to Assess the Accuracy of Registrant Data in the Whois Database.

• A Registrar Privacy/Proxy Registration Services Study to Assess the Extent to Which Registrants Are Using Privacy/Proxy Registration Services.

• ICANN’s Whois Data Problem Report System (WDPRS) is Undergoing a Redesign to Improve Functionality and Meet Community Needs.

• Recent Whois-Related Enforcement Action – Notices of Breach

Again, thank you for your comment. Please do get back if you have further questions.

Stacy Burnette, Director of Contractual Compliance

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By: Assignor

Assignor — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:02:29 +0000

Develop immediate policy and take immediate action to protect owners of gTLDs who are caught in registrars "going down." I don't see where ICANN, like many businesses, ever anticipated harsh economic times or other reasons for regisrars to get into trouble. Yet in today's commerce a person's/company's domain name is a valuable asset and often its correct operation seriously affects their daily operation and success. Example: while at this time Australia (AUDA) is taking AU operations away from Bottle Domains and its even more failing subsidiary Domain Central, since late January/early February large numbers of owners (as can be found in forums and blogs) of gTLDs registered through them have had little or no customer service, have been unable to maintain their gTLDs including even in our case renew to prevent expiration, have been unable to successfully transfer away to a new registrar (if you can not get contact you can not get a key), have had security breaches that have compromised, changed, and even redirected their domain names and other issues. A company which now states it has no telephone number, no longer answers chat, and does not respond to email for weeks if ever, AND does not respond to other registrars ! ! ! ! SOLUTION Immediately spend your money on legal authority to 1. quickly develop strong policy and 2. timely take control of registered domains from businesses "going down" or not providing service , 3. immediately extend any possible expirations that could damage domain owners, 4. temporarily assign their administration to a team of other registrars to administer, and 4. on adjudication either return control to a revitalized registrar or permanently assign them to other registrars by a system. Good Luck - - remember to protect your consumers and ICANN's image which can be soiled by registrars.

By: Kazan tatar

Kazan tatar — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:14:32 +0000

I do not know, but money of ICANN should spend on program new gTLDs and IDN (dotCity and others).

By: L Sprint

L Sprint — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:14:56 +0000

Spend your money implementing what anti-spam organizations have been trying to tell ICANN for years.
ENFORCEMENT– Specifically rogue registrars.

You know damn well who they are.
The top ten registrars account for 80% of the SPAM in in boxes.
RADICAL SUGGESTION:
HOW ‘BOUT doing something about it ???????????????????????????