[Gnso-ppsai-pdp-wg] Questions 2 and 3, Category D

[Kathy Kleiman]

Hi All,
The Background information to Category D, Questions 2 and *3, does not 
seem to reflect the fairly starting conclusion that arose from it, that 
truly legitimate business use proxy/privacy in high levels, including 
banks.
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*So a few quick edits to Questions 2 and 3 (with two discussed by way of 
example). And also a correction to the study link that links to the call 
for the study, and that I have revised to be the study itself...*

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Edits in caps...
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*Best,
Kathy
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Background information relevant to this question:*

*Information from the Whois Studies*


*_Whois Privacy and Proxy Services Abuse Study_ 
<http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-18may10-en.htm>*[*LINK 
TO REPORT AT 
https://www.icann.org/public-comments/whois-pp-abuse-study-2013-09-24-en]*-

Our study shows that it IS TRUE that: "A significant percentage of the 
domain names used to conduct illegal or harmful Internet activities are 
registered via privacy or proxy services to obscure the perpetrator's 
identity".

Our study shows that it is PARTLY TRUE that: "The percentage of domain 
names used to conduct illegal or harmful Internet activities that are 
registered via privacy or proxy services is significantly greater than 
the percentage of domain names used for lawful Internet activities that 
employ privacy or proxy services."

OUR STUDY ALSO SHOWS THAT IS IS TRUE THAT: BANKS WHO HAVE NOT 
MALICIOUSLY REGISTERED DOMAIN NAMES HAVE A HIGHER THAN AVERAGE RATE OF 
USE OF PROXY/PRIVACY REGISTRATION.

STUDY LIMITATIONS: THE STUDY NOTES; "it is important to understandthat 
the selection we have made is not necessarily representative of the 
overall usage of domain names for lawful and harmless reasons."

More helpfully, we can say: "When domain names are registered with the 
intent of conducting illegal or harmful Internet activities then a range 
of different methods are used to avoid providing viable contact 
information -- with a consistent outcome no matter which method is used.

However, although many more domains registered for entirely lawful 
Internet activities have viable telephone contact information recorded 
within the Whois system, a great percentage of them do not."




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