[ncdnhc-discuss] WLS proposal

[Marc Schneiders]

On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, at 16:08 [=GMT-0400], James Love wrote:
> Marc Schneiders wrote:
> >>>How do you make sure that I do not try to be 1000 persons, so enhancing my
> >>>chance at getting a domain in the lottery?
> >>
> >>    Well, I would require that you provide accurate whois data in order to
> >>bid, and if you committed fraud, I would bar you from future participation.
> >>    You could also rely upon a financial transaction to confirm a real
> >>billing address.
> >
> > So, I would have to pay to participate in the lottery?
>
>      You might have to have paid at least once, for something... maybe
> another doamin.

So in order to get a domain (or at least to be allowed to wait for it), I
must already have another? It cannot be my first?

> The issue you raised concerned identify fraud.   If you
> have registered a domain before, and a financial transaction can confirm
> your billing address and name, then the identify fraud issue can be addressed.

This will not work for the many resellers of e.g. Tucows and Enom. The
transaction between registrar and registrant is over the reseller. His
credit card is used, not that of a registrant, because the registrant pays
the reseller.

>      Or, some other method could be used to verify the whois data.  My point
> is that one can make it difficult to pretend to be 1,000 persons,

True. But is that good enough?

> and also
> make it completely unimportant to be first for expired domains.

I do not get this. I thought that was implied in your proposal.

> PS, as a member of the NCC Adcom, find out what I have to do to make an
> official NCC position, since I"m on the TF, and I keep being asked if it is
> offical NCC position.

Draft a motion, discuss it on the list, have it voted upon.