[APAC-Discuss] [WHOIS-WG] Beijing and Policy Discussion - and Verisign

[Holly Raiche]

Yes Carlton - I did mean registrars.  Sorry.  And I really don't have a problem with companies acting in their own best interests within the law. The really disappointing thing is that the big initiative by Compliance for a complete audit of all registries and registrars was launched without someone in Compliance making sure they could do it!  It is a bit of egg on their face that they (and ICANN didn't need)

Holly
On 14/01/2013, at 4:21 AM, Carlton Samuels wrote:

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> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Holly Raiche <h.raiche at internode.on.net> wrote:
> Arguably, since this is only about Verisign's agreement in relation to the .net registry, all is not lost since, arguably, the registries handling .net domain names for Verisign are covered by the RAA (as opposed to the ICANN-Verisign contract  on .net) so the Whois data held should be accurate as required under the RAA ( but then we have already drawn attention to the deficiencies in that contract - specifically clause 3.7.8) 
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> Looks like like a very legalistic corporate response to the changing face of ICANN Compliance; "we will do only what we are contractually obliged"... OK, makes sense.  Put the onus on ICANN to get the contracts right then!
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> ......following the logic and since .net is a "thin" registry, I think you meant to say registrars here, no?  
> 
> - Carlton 
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