[At-Large] [NA-Discuss] Where is the promised Comprehensive Review of ICANN Accreditation Processes?

[Brendler, Beau]

 >What's odd is not disclosing a real business address and phone number.<

Absolutely. Every set of Web publishing best practices that's been put forward, including WebWatch's own work, gives big weight to whether there's a real address and phone number displayed on the site. Even the FTC, in its consumer education tips, tells people not to do business with a Web site that doesn't at least display a physical address and phone number. It shouldn't be a stretch to require the same of registrar sites.

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Subject: Re: [At-Large] [NA-Discuss] Where is the promised Comprehensive Review of ICANN Accreditation Processes?

> This document requires the applicant to disclose certain details such as "business address of the entity applicant".

I would focus on this issue, not the place where they're incorporated.
Literally millions of US companies are for tax reasons incorporated in Delaware, with the nominal Delaware address being a service company that handles incorporation.  There's nothing odd about that.

What's odd is not disclosing a real business address and phone number.
It strains credulity that a registrar which shows all signs of being in India is picking up its mail from mailboxes in Oregon.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.

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