The bits on Proxy Registrations or Privacy Services may be of interest...
Bill
Begin forwarded message:
Date: April 13, 2010 7:14:15 AM GMT+02:00
Subject: [council] Law Enforcement Recommend RAA Amendments and ICANN Due
Diligence
Not sure where the original law enforcement document was submitted. Below
is what I found at:
Law Enforcement Recommend RAA Amendments and ICANN Due Diligence
Introduction: Below are: 1) suggested amendments to the RAA and; 2) due
diligence recommendations for ICANN to adopt in accrediting registrars and
registries. Both are supported by the following international law
enforcement agencies:
• Australian Federal Police;
• Department of Justice (US);
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (US);
• New Zealand Police;
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police;
• Serious Organised Crime Agency (UK)
The amendments are considered to be required in order to aid the prevention
and disruption of efforts to exploit domain registration procedures by
Criminal Groups for criminal purposes. The proposed amendments take
account of existing EU, US, Canadian and Australian legislation and those
countries commitment to preserving individual’s rights to privacy. These
amendments would maintain these protections whilst facilitating effective
investigation of Internet related crime.
I. Proposed Amendments to the RAA (May 21, 2009 version)
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1) The RAA should not explicitly condone or encourage the use of Proxy
Registrations or Privacy Services, as it appears in paragraphs 3.4.1 and
3.12.4. This goes directly against the Joint Project Agreement (JPA) ICANN
signed with the United States Department of Commerce on September 25, 2006
which specifically states “ICANN shall continue to enforce existing (Whois)
policy”, i.e., totally open and public WHOIS, and the September 30, 2009,
Affirmation of Commitments, paragraph 9.3.1 which states “ICANN implement
measures to maintain timely, unrestricted and public access to accurate and
complete WHOIS information, including registrant, technical, billing, and
administrative contact information.” Lastly, proxy and privacy registrations
contravene the 2007 GAC Principles on WHOIS.
If there are proxy and/or privacy domain name registrations, the following
is recommended concerning their use:
a. Registrars are to accept proxy/privacy registrations only from ICANN
accredited Proxy Registration Services;1
(1: ICANN to implement accreditation system for Proxy Services using the
same stringent checks and assurances as provided in these points, to ensure
that all proxy services used are traceable and can supply correct details of
registrant to relevant authorities.)
b. Registrants using privacy/proxy registration services will have authentic
WHOIS information immediately published by the Registrar when registrant is
found to be violating terms of service, including but not limited to the use
of false data, fraudulent use, spamming and/or criminal activity.
2) To RAA paragraph 5.3.2.1, language should be added to the effect “or
knowingly and/or through gross negligence permit criminal activity in the
registration of domain names or provision of domain name WHOIS information…”
3) All Accredited Registrars must submit to ICANN accurate and verifiable
contact details of their main operational and physical office location,
including country, phone number (with international prefix), street address,
city, and region, to be publicly disclosed in ICANN web directory. Address
must also be posted clearly on the Registrar's main website. Post Office
boxes, incorporation addresses, mail-drop, and mail-forwarding locations
will not be acceptable. In addition, Registrar must submit URL and location
of Port 43 WHOIS server.
4) Registrars must publicly display of the name of CEO, President, and/or
other responsible officer(s).
5) Registrars with multiple accreditations must disclose and publicly
display on their website parent ownership or corporate relationship, i.e.,
identify controlling interests.
6) Registrar must notify ICANN immediately of the following and concurrently
update Registrar website:
a. any and all changes to a Registrar’s location;
b. changes to presiding officer(s);
c. bankruptcy filing;
d. change of ownership;
e. criminal convictions ;
f. legal/civil actions
7) Registrar should be legal entity within the country of operation, and
should provide ICANN with official certification of business registration or
license.
8) Resellers must be held completely accountable to ALL provisions of the
RAA. Registrars must contractually obligate all its Resellers to comply and
enforce all RAA provisions. The Registrar will be held directly liable for
any breach of the RAA a Reseller commits in which the Registrar does not
remediate immediately. All Registrar resellers and third-party
beneficiaries should be listed and reported to ICANN who shall maintain
accurate and updated records.
9) Registrars and all associated third-party beneficiaries to Registrars are
required to collect and securely maintain the following data (Ref:
Anti-Phishing Working Group (AGWG) “Anti-Phishing Best Practices
Recommendations for Registrars”, October 2008):
(i) Source IP address
(ii) HTTP Request Headers
(a) From
(b) Accept
(c) Accept‐Encoding
(d) Accept‐Language
(e) User‐Agent
(f) Referrer
(g) Authorization
(h) Charge‐To
(i) If‐Modified‐Since
(iii) Collect and store the following data from registrants:
(a) First Name:
(b) Last Name:
(c) E‐mail Address:
(d) Alternate E‐mail address
(e) Company Name:
(f) Position:
(g) Address 1:
(h) Address 2:
(i) City:
(j) Country:
(k) State:
(l) Enter State:
(m) Zip:
(n) Phone Number:
(o) Additional Phone:
(p) Fax:
(q) Alternative Contact First Name:
(r) Alternative Contact Last Name:
(s) Alternative Contact E‐mail:
(t) Alternative Contact Phone:
(iv) Collect data on all additional add‐on services purchased during the
registration process.
(v) All financial transactions, including, but not limited to credit card,
payment information.
10) Each registrar is required to validate the following data upon receipt
from a registrant Ref: Anti-Phishing Working Group (AGWG) “Anti-Phishing
Best Practices Recommendations for Registrars”, October 2008):
(1) Technical Data
(a) IP addresses used to register domain names.
(b) E‐mail Address
(i) Verify that registration e‐mail address(es) are valid.
(2) Billing Data
(a) Validate billing data based on the payment card industry (PCI
standards), at a minimum, the latest version of the PCI Data Security
Standard (DSS).
(3) Contact Data
(a) Validate data is being provided by a human by using some anti‐automatic
form submission technology (such as dynamic imaging) to ensure registrations
are done by humans.
(b) Validate current address WHOIS data and correlate with in‐house
fraudulent data for domain contact information and registrant’s IP address.
(4) Phone Numbers
(i) Confirm that point of contact phone numbers are valid using an automated
system.
(ii) Cross validate the phone number area code with the provided address and
credit card billing address.
11) Registrar must provide abuse contact information, including the SSAC SAC
038 recommendations below (ICANN SSAC SAC 038: Registrar Abuse Point of
Contact, 25 February 2009):
• Registrars must prominently publish abuse contact information on their
website and WHOIS.
1. The registrar identified in the sponsoring registrar field of a Whois
entry should have an abuse contact listed prominently on its web page. To
assist the community in locating this page, registrars should use uniform
naming convention to facilitate (automated and rapid) discovery of this
page, i.e.,
http://www.<registar>.<TLD>/abuse.html.
2. Registrars should provide ICANN with their abuse contact information and
ICANN should publish this information at
• The information a registrar publishes for the abuse point of contact
should be consistent with contact details currently proposed as an amendment
to Section 3.16 of the RAA. Each contact method (telephone, email, postal
address) should reach an individual at the Registrar who will be able to
promptly and competently attend to an abuse claim; for example, no contact
should intentionally reject postal or email submissions.
• Registrars should provide complainants with a well-defined, auditable way
to track abuse complaints (e.g. a ticketing or similar tracking system).
12) ICANN should require Registrars to have a Service Level Agreement for
their Port 43 servers.
II. Proposed ICANN Due Diligence on current and new gTLD Registrars and
Registries
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a. ICANN to conduct enhanced due diligence on all Registrars and Registries
(including but not limited to owners, officers, board of directors) ICANN
accredits, or has accredited, to include, but not limited to:
• criminal checks;
• credit checks;
• financial history and solvency;
• corporate/company structure and ownership.
For example: Dunn and Bradstreet, Lexis-Nexis, Clear, World-Check, etc.
b. Such due diligence shall be documented by ICANN, in detail, in a written
report that can be provided upon request to appropriate auditors.
c. ICANN should provide complainants with well-defined and auditable way to
track complaints against Registrars and Registries.
i. ICANN should publish annual detailed reports of reported complaints.
d. ICANN should conduct WHOIS compliance audits, at least once a year, and
publish results on:
i. Port 43
ii. WHOIS accuracy
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William J. Drake
Senior Associate
Centre for International Governance
Graduate Institute of International and
Development Studies
Geneva, Switzerland
www.graduateinstitute.ch/cig/drake.html
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