Comments from WG Members
From Holly Raiche - 11 November 2009
Registrants’ Rights
Suggestions for the sorts of issues that might sit in a Charter of rights include a registrant’s right to: (NB some of these are a rephrasing of Danny Younger’s suggestions)
- Not be required to transfer a registration to the registrar or registrar associated 3rd party for auction purposes instead of letting the name expire
- having sole power to authorise change administration and other contact details for a domain name
- Have all registrants entitled to a uniform grace period
- To have AuthInfor code information
- Other obligations that are in existing RAA provisions or implied in the provisions, such as full contact information of the registrar, right to at least two notices of impending expiry of registration, etc.
Possible additional or strengthened Registrar’s responsibilities/ obligations
(NB: The international law enforcement agencies’ suggestions all are additional/tightened requirements on Registrars and would be included in this issues list). The first issue is whether a Code of Practice should be developed (as suggested by Danny Younger, and as exists in Australia). If some of the issues below might be provisions in such a Code.
- Requirement on registrars to cancel a registration if inaccurate or unreliable WHOIS information is not corrected
- Prominently display contact information. ICANN SAC also recently advised that Registrars should have a 24/7 contact number that connects to a person technically able to deal with abuse notification
- Use commercially available verification systems to provide time of registration validations
- Prohibitions (or stronger prohibitions) on front running, cyber squatting
- Have stronger action by registrars on breaches by resellers
