Kumquats
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 11:44:03 +0100, Jeff Williams
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>All,
>
> I wonder how exactly the ICANN or the DNSO expects to
>exact any authority for doing this, and in particular in
>any TLD name space that is not .com, .net, .org? In addition
>in that a domain name is now considered legal property,
>such a provision is not within the purview of ICANN either.
>Hence it appears that this is more bluster than substance,
>and as such is by its nature in violation of the White Paper
>as it leads to the instability of the Internet and the DNS
>in particular.
>
>Bret A. Fausett wrote:
>
>> ICANN's draft "Registrar Accreditation Agreement" suggests
>> that ICANN itself may take over this function:
>>
>> See, Section J (6):
>>
>> 6. Registrar shall not insert or renew any SLD name in any
>> registry for which Registrar is accredited in a manner
>> contrary to an ICANN-approved list or specification of
>> excluded SLD names that is in effect at the time of
>> insertion or renewal.
>>
>> http://www.icann.org/registrar_agreement.html
>>
>> -- Bret
>>
>> > This will be up to each registrar.
>> >
>> > Chuck Gomes
>> >
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Michael Bryan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> >> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 3:33 PM
>> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >> Subject: Domain name censoring: registry or registrar?
>> >>
>> >> With the new split, which part of NSI gets control over blocking
>> >> certain domain names that contain allegedly objectionable words?
>> >> Will this (as I suspect) remain with the registry, or will each
>> >> registrar decide whether or not to continue this policy? Or
>> >> better yet, will it just be dropped entirely?
>> >>
>> >> Michael Bryan
>> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>
>
>Regards,
--
William X. Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
General Manager, DSo Internet Services
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