On Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 10:47:00 PM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > I'm alarmed at some of the stuff GoDaddy did, completely on their own > without orders from ICANN. See http://www.nodaddy.com. I don't want > the domain name registration system turned into a nanny-state tool.
It would be, if it were the government doing it. GoDaddy is a business, and a business has a right not to do business with abusers of the Internet, including cybercriminals. Cybercriminals can and apparently do take their business elsewhere, so it's pretty difficult to meaningfully compare GoDaddy to government censorship. Really the problem is with the apparently irresponsible domain registrars at the top of the Knujon list who seem perfectly happy to sell hundreds of thousands of domains to apparent criminals. > The > proper forum through which to lodge complaints against registrars is the > ICANN, and ICANN needs to be held accountable for a _lot_ of strange > stuff. It's a zoo out there! As much as I would like ICANN to do much more to fight abuse, ICANN really can't police the Internet. They don't route the networks, host the sites, pass the traffic, host the domain zone files, run everyone's mail servers, etc. It would be a bit like asking the registrar of voters to stop political corruption. The outright criminal ISPs and registrars (like Estdomains, Intercage, McColo, etc.) need to be kicked off the Internet, and the non-criminal ISPs and registrars need to do much more to stop abuse of their services and networks. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:je...@surbl.org http://www.surbl.org/
