[At-Large] Impressions from the Whois-Review

[Beau Brendler]

Corporations and their proxies may be allowed to deceitfully register domains, but that doesn't mean people don't notice, and complain about it:

http://blog.consumerwebwatch.org/2008/12/animal_planetclorox_frog_site.html

http://blog.consumerwebwatch.org/2007/07/why_the_hon_code_is_worthless.html#more

for instance.

The system is broken all the way around.


-----Original Message-----
>From: Karl Auerbach <karl at cavebear.com>
>Sent: Jan 31, 2011 3:28 PM
>To: at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org
>Subject: Re: [At-Large] Impressions from the Whois-Review
>
>On 01/31/2011 11:23 AM, Omar Kaminski wrote:
>> And how about the so called proxies?
>
>Corporate shells are frequently used by corporate entities to hide the 
>actual ownership and control.
>
>And we allow those corporate shells to register domain names without any 
>complaint - we accept their identities as legitimate.
>
>Why are we so unwilling to accord to people the same protective rights 
>as we do to corporations?
>
>	--karl--
>
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