[NCUC-DISCUSS] ICANN WHOIS - request for Photo ID

[Jeremy Malcolm]

Hello all,

I'm writing to ask some advice on behalf of someone who contacted EFF 
about being asked by a registrar to supply photo ID in order to regain 
access to their .com domain. The registrar is netearthone.com which is 
based in London, and they have the personal information of this customer 
for billing purposes, but for the data that is displayed through WHOIS, 
the customer set their details to the words "Anonymised", which led to 
the registrar suspending the domain for containing fake WHOIS data.

My question is, is it normal for a registrar to require photo ID to 
unblock a domain that has been suspended for having fake WHOIS data? He 
would like to avoid giving them his photo ID if possible, but I don't 
know the extent to which this is normal practice.

Thanks.

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Jeremy Malcolm
Senior Global Policy Analyst
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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