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

[Mueller, Milton L]

The whole situation is not "normal, so I can't comment on it's normality. Normally domains are not suspended for inaccurate information. I imagine the registrar wants, before restoring the domain, to authenticate the identity of the registrant. Why they need a photo ID to do this is beyond me. 

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> 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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