Registration Abuse Policies Working Group Publishes its Final Report
With the publication of the Final Report on May 29, a number of recommendations to address domain name registration abuse in gTLDs were included for consideration by the GNSO Council. These recommendations are related to:
- Cybersquatting: recommending the initiation of a Policy Development Process to investigate the current state of the UDRP .
- WHOIS access problems: seeking ways to ensure that WHOIS data is accessible in an appropriately reliable, enforceable, and consistent fashion; and requesting that the ICANN Compliance Department publish data about WHOIS accessibility.
- Malicious use of domain names: recommending the creation of best practices to help registrars and registries address the illicit use of domain names.
- Front-running: recommending possible enforcement actions by ICANN Compliance
- Cross-TLD registration scam: recommending to monitor and co-ordinate research with the community
- Uniformity of contracts: recommending the creation of an Issues Report to evaluate whether a minimum baseline of registration abuse provisions should be created for all in-scope ICANN agreements.
- GNSO-wide practices for the collection and dissemination of best practices, and for uniformity of reporting.
- Fake renewal notices
- Domain kiting
- Deceptive and/or offensive domain names
