Fwd: [council] Statement on WHOIS from a group of registrars

[Mawaki Chango]

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--- Bruce Tonkin <Bruce.Tonkin at melbourneit.com.au> wrote:

> Subject: [council] Statement on WHOIS from a group of
> registrars
> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:49:05 +1000
> From: "Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin at melbourneit.com.au>
> To: "Council GNSO" <council at gnso.icann.org>
>
> Hello All,
>
> The statement below is a work in progress and is not yet an
> official
> registrars constituency statement, however the undersigned
> registrars
> have supported this statement.     These registrars manage a
> substantial
> majority of WHOIS records for gTLDs.
>
> Discussion on this topic is publicly archived on the
> registrars mailing
> list.
>
> Regards,
> Bruce Tonkin
>
>
> We the undersigned registrars wish to confirm that we will
> continue to
> collect the data (commonly called WHOIS data) as required by
> the
> registrar accreditation agreement (all of which is currently
> displayed
> to the general public), and will continue to provide access to
> such data
> by law enforcement, intellectual property, ISPs, and others
> through
> appropriate processes.   Registrars are open to improve those
> processes
> for more efficient access by legitimate users.
>
> Registrars store this information for the lifetime of their
> agreement
> with ICANN plus an additional 3 years.
>
> Registrars also note that other useful data such as the IP
> (Internet
> Protocol) address used by a registrant when registering a
> domain name
> and credit card information is also stored.  This information
> is also
> available for law enforcement access through appropriate
> processes.
>
> Registrars continue to support privacy protection for the
> Personal Data
> of natural persons.
>
>
> List of supporters as of 9:30 AM Wednesday (6/28):
>
> Network Solutions
> SRSPlus
> Namesecure
> eNom
> Namebay
> Active 24
> Dotster
> AusRegistry
> Melbourne IT
> Schlund
> CORE
> Moniker.com
> Nominalia
> Tucows
> GoDaddy
> Directi
> Domain The Net
> NetNames
> Stargate Holdings Corp
> Encirca
> Register.com
> Name.com
> Name Intelligence
> CORE*
> Nominalia*
> Schlund*
>
> NOTE: * registrars only endorsed the original version.
> Support for the
> current draft is assumed
>
>
>
>