[At-Large] Definition of registration abuse

[Franck Martin]

Many social networks take down accounts based solely on report of violations of Terms Of Services. 

I guess as long as a notice is served (your domain is terminated because violation of TOS, or better your domain will be terminated in 24 hours due to violation of TOS) and the domain owner has a right to answer the allegations or have its day in court, I'm cool with the process. 

May be a bit like copyright take down notices, once notified, and after say 10 days, the registry becomes responsible for keeping the domain? 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John R. Levine" <johnl at iecc.com> 
To: "Karl Auerbach" <karl at cavebear.com> 
Cc: "At-Large Worldwide" <at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, 29 April, 2009 9:00:36 PM (GMT+1100) Auto-Detected 
Subject: Re: [At-Large] Definition of registration abuse 

> As long as it takes. Otherwise we will have a system in which a mere 
> accusation is sufficient. 

Do you really think it is a good idea to require a court case and a trial 
to take down a phish site pretending to be Paypal or the Bank of America? 

You're quite right that among ICANN's less attractive qualities is its 
tendency to invent half-assed processes dominated by lobbyists. On the 
other hand, for every controversial high profile domain takedown, there 
must be a thousand routine phish squashes. 

If there's no formal process to do that, there will be informal processes, 
and they're even more capricious than ICANN. Be careful what you wish 
for. 

R's, 
John 

_______________________________________________ 
At-Large mailing list 
At-Large at atlarge-lists.icann.org 
http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/at-large_atlarge-lists.icann.org 

At-Large Official Site: http://atlarge.icann.org