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What's in .NAME? 5000+ .NAME Registrations Inconsistent With .NAME Restrictions
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posted by filter_editor
on Friday May 31, @12:01PM
from the who-cares-what-my-contract-with-ICANN-says dept.
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Ben Edelman writes "According to the .NAME registry's contract with ICANN and according to .NAME's registration
agreement (which all registrants must accept), .NAME domain registrations are to
be "personal names" -- defined to be "a person's legal name, or a name by which
the person is commonly known." Nonetheless, in my
recent
research,
I've documented 5000+ distinct .NAME domains that seem inconsistent with this
criteria -- names of companies (sharper.image.name), organizations
(harvard.university.name), products (allergy.tylenolallergysinus.name), and
geographic locations (stateof.california.name), for example, along with a
variety of names related to sexually-explicit content and domain name registration. These many registrations, constituting more than 8% of currently-registered .NAME domains, call into question the effectiveness of enforcement of .NAME registration restrictions.
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