Your chance to comment to ICANN on the “Initial Report (IR) of the Registration Abuse Policies Working Group (“RAPWG”) ends today, March 28, 2010
According to ICANN, the Report includes concrete recommendations to address domain name registration abuse in gTLDs for Community consideration and input.
Included are recommendations 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
- Fake renewal notices
- Domain kiting
- Deceptive and/or offensive domain names
- 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.
You can read the report here (pdf).
As of publication there are only 4 comments made on this proposal, including those of George Kirikos and Godaddy.com
You can see all the comments here.
The ICA is expected to file a comment today.
If you want to comment you have to send your comments in the form of an e-mail to: rap-initial-report@icann.org
ICANN will send back a confirmation e-mail which you must respond to for your comment to get posted and count.
In case your wondering there are 18 additional ICANN issues open for comment.
You can see the complete list of topics and issues here.