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+- Will ICANN shut down "worst" Chinese regis-> on Sunday June 22 2008, @08:00PM Ian Lamont
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Ian Lamont writes "Antispam service Knujon has released reports highlighting how certain registrars in the U.S. and abroad have consistently failed to live up to certain WHOIS-related obligations under ICANN's Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) — specfically, the requirement that people or company registering domains provide valid contact information. Now the firm is requesting that ICANN shut down the worst alleged offender, Xinnet Bei Gong Da Software. According to Knujon, none of the WHOIS records in a sample of 11,000 alleged spam sites registered through Xinnet and reported by Knujon to ICANN's Whois Data Problem Report System were corrected in a six-month period ending in May 2008 — and the Chinese registrar continues to register about 100 spam sites per day. In many cases, says the Knujon document (PDF), Xinnet does not have 'any Whois record data for review while the sites are still active' and the spam sites further promote 'seal abuse' by posting bogus BBB, Verisign, and other trusted industry seals. ICANN says it is investigating, and an ICANN-affiliated commenter notes that ICANN has just posted a draft revised RAA that is open for public comment until August 4. However, the wording of Section 3.7.8 — which governs registrars' obligations to check and correct domain owners' contact information — hasn't changed."
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