Hope this is an end of an era of a free ride for Registrars, esp. the largest. They brought this on themselves! See: Probe into hacking of high school Web site

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/22/police_domain_rules/

I have no idea of what your talking about.

None of the activity law enforcement is concerned about has to deal with parked domains or what you call cybersquatting.

It has to do with criminal activity which we are all against, phishing, child porn, hacking, spoofing, malware that steals your information, etc etc.

The issue is how to prevent it, how to catch the guys doing it and whose going to pay for this effort

I was in the registrars meeting yesterday and I have to tell you is that they are none to happy with many of ICANN rules and moves.

If you think that ICANN simply rubber stamps everything they want, I got to tell you that is not the case.

There was plenty of push back from the registrar community yesterday to some actions of ICANN and the discussions got quite heated

“”yes domain registrars will be held accountable not the government.
this is no big deal you know when you are breaking the law.”"

It no big deal as long as your not responsible for collecting, verifying and storing the information, which is a huge task and a costly process.

And its no big deal unless you are paying for it, which are registrants we will.

I asked a big registrar about these requirements yesterday and costs associated with it but his guess was something to the tune of an additional $.25-$.50 per domain.

Some say they are not cybersquatting because they are only registering domains for which a small to midsized company failed to register their trademark. The actions of these people are precisely the reason congress passed cybersquatting laws in the first step.

I like to call them domain hoarders, buying a domain for $10, injecting no value in the domain and then essentially black mailing the businesses for tens of thousands of dollars. This is all made possible by a single misstep on the part of a small business by failing to register their trademark. One step removed from cybersquatting. I laugh when I see these same hoarders crying about how unfair all these new regulations are. When you play with fire you are bound to get burned.

“Finally it looks as if Registrars will be prohibited from cybersqautting and a registrar can have their accreditation yanked if they are found to be engaged in a pattern of cybersquatting based on their own registrations.”

Please, MHB, don’t fall on a bandwagon influenced by Registrar PR of offense to this law enforcement initiative. If ICANN were doing it’s job, there wouldn’t be a need for law enforcement to step in. The sorry reality is Registrars write their own rules, influence ICANN to write rules in their behalf, and are unaccountable to the RAA agreement which dictates all the above.