[Infowarrior] - ICANN Council Rejects Domain Owner Anonymity

[Richard Forno]

ICANN Council Rejects Domain Owner Anonymity
By David Kravets EmailOctober 31, 2007 | 2:36:31 PMCategories: Privacy

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/icann-council-s.html

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers voted down a
proposal Wednesday to grant internet domain owners anonymity.

Instead, the ICANN council voted 17-7 to continue studying whether it should
abandon its policy requiring domain site owners' personal or proxy
information to appear on a Whois search. After nearly two hours of debate,
the group voted to investigate formulating a policy that ensures
"appropriate privacy safeguards for natural persons, lawful access to data
for rights enforcement, consumer protection, law enforcement and anti-crime
purposes."

The council for the governing body of domain registrations, voted down a
measure that would have allowed Whois reporting requirements to expire at
the end of 2008.