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

[Eduardo Diaz]

There should be complete transparency in this, otherwise it gives the
impression that these registrars are doing something illegal. 

 

So which committee/organization do we approach to start discussing and
change this?

 

Eduardo Diaz

ISOC-PR

 

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

 

Source:  http://www.knujon.com/news.html

 

Phantom Registrars

 

In investigating the 48 Directi-owned Registrars with questionable
locations, we reported facts. The address used by many of these Registrars:
"14525 SW Millikan Way Beaverton, OR 97005-2343" is the address of a mail
forwarding service called Earthclassmail. According to Directi, the listed
companies are registered in Delaware, but not in Oregon or New York as
listed in the ICANN Directory. Directi is headquartered in Mumbai, India.
KnujOn feels that any company given so much responsibility over the Internet
should fully disclose where they are located, but this is apparently not an
ICANN requirement.

 

Indeed, Stacy Burnette, director of contractual compliance at ICANN, said
the organization is satisfied the registrars are incorporated in the
location listed in their application. Telephone numbers in the contact
information need not correspond to the location of incorporation, she said.
ICANN doesn't require registrars to publicly disclose their place of
incorporation.

 

To which KnujOn says: Huh? So, as the expression goes, don't hate the player
hate the game. Directi merely acquired these accreditations by ICANN's own
rules. Summary: One address in the application, a second address disclosed
to the public. Read this line again: "ICANN doesn't require registrars to
publicly disclose their place of incorporation." How does this figure into
ICANN's mission to be an open and transparent organization? "Telephone
numbers in the contact information need not correspond to the location of
incorporation". How can there be any accountability? This situation is
upside-down. Registrants are required to list their valid contact
information, but the Registrars who sponsor their domains are not. 

 

 

 

      

 

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