Domain registrars push back on law enforcement changes

lulz

What's this, the drug dealers meeting with the cops to discuss how to combat the war on drugs?

ICANN, ARIN, etc.. these "non-profits" are the criminals.

ICANN has been dictating how the internet should be ran "with help from the corporations and people that fund it" for years.

The domain market is a complete craphole as companies like DirectI and it's affiliates make a mockery of the whois system.

Once upon a time a domain depending on it's popularity might have someones home address in the whois, or a corporate address if it's larger. Im all for not listing someones home address but in those instances there should of been methods to get mail to the individual with help from the domain companies.

I say this with experience when using godaddy years ago. The whois info you had on your domain was kept seperate from the information they had on you. While they published whois details based on the information provided, they always had 'billing" info that was kept off the whois or on it if you provided it for the whois. Things might be different now, but the people collecting the money know how to contact you.

It's very easy to register adiasdisadias.com, be up and running in a few hours on a taxpayer funded hijacked overseas network thanks to organizations like the Internet Society that get funded by yes your taxes (in part). It's such a good idea to wire up the third world, I love trying to track abuse when networks aren't identified or when I find myself emailing abuse contacts only to have those abuse contacts be the people behind the spam and trouble to begin with. With each abuse e-mail we send like that, I think we're just inviting more spam because they see the email address works.

When you have a shield of anonymity it opens the doors to pretty much do whatever you want and when your doing it on hijacked networks paid for by yourself it's all a losing battle.

It does need to be fixed

It's clear that there is a problem with the system the way it stands, but I really don't want "law enforcement" to be fixing it. That's almost guaranteed to make things worse.

As it stands private people are putting up their home addresses and home telephone numbers for all to see. That is wrong. Actually, to have either of those as a requirement is discriminatory to my way of thinking. Certainly to force people to buy a telephone subscription which they might not otherwise need (at ~$40 per month), is wrong.

At least in this country, one can get a passport or drivers licence without being forced to make your personal information public or get a phone . Why should a domain name rank higher than those?

A lot of the net's problems

come down to monetising domain registry... Look what its brought us, cybersquatting for instance first positioned the net as a suitable place for get rich quick fraudsters and scammers to make easy money, spam domains, search engin posoning, all the rest of it.. But what they're not doing is actually creating any value.... If such people are complaining abput legislation then there's a chance the legislation may not be that far off the mark...