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

[Joly MacFie]

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On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 7:00 PM, Mueller, Milton L <milton at gatech.edu>
wrote:

> 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.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ncuc-discuss [mailto:ncuc-discuss-bounces at lists.ncuc.org] On
> Behalf Of
> > Jeremy Malcolm
> > Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2018 8:20 PM
> > To: NCUC-discuss <ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org>
> > Subject: [NCUC-DISCUSS] ICANN WHOIS - request for Photo ID
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > Jeremy Malcolm
> > Senior Global Policy Analyst
> > Electronic Frontier Foundation
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> >
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