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

[Marika Konings]

Hi Kathy,

I went back to the Whois Privacy and Proxy Services Abuse Study Final Report
(see 
http://whois.icann.org/sites/default/files/files/pp-abuse-study-final-07mar1
4-en.pdf) and I cannot find the language you quote below. Maybe I am looking
at the wrong place? Please note that the current quotes come from page 8 of
the report. I did find the two following quotes that relate to the use by
banks / representativeness of the data:
* (page 7) The table clearly shows a correlation, in that maliciously
registered domains have a higher usage of privacy and proxy services ­ but
this correlation is not universal in that banks are above average users of
these services, as are adult websites.
* (page 6) Our study mainly addresses the use of domain names that have been
implicated in illegal or harmful activities. The study also examines
(particularly in WP6) some samples of lawful and harmless domain names to
establish a point of reference, but it is important to understand that the
selection we have made is not necessarily representative of the overall
usage of domain names for lawful and harmless purposes.
Please let me know if you meant to request to have these two quotes added
and/or point me in the right direction to find the language you have quoted
below. Maybe it is worth pointing out as well that the information we quote
from the Whois Studies in these templates are those aspects that relate
directly to the question under review ­ obviously, to understand the full
scope of the study and all aspects of it, the whole study should be reviewed
and as such I don't think it is our intention to represent the information
from the studies in this way in the Initial Report, it merely serves the
purpose to facilitate the WG's deliberations on each question.

Best regards,

Marika

From:  Kathy Kleiman <kathy at kathykleiman.com>
Date:  Tuesday 17 June 2014 16:02
To:  "gnso-ppsai-pdp-wg at icann.org" <gnso-ppsai-pdp-wg at icann.org>
Subject:  [Gnso-ppsai-pdp-wg] Questions 2 and 3, Category D

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.

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...


Edits in caps...

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; ³it is important to understand that the
selection we have made is not necessarily representative of the overall
usage of domain names for lawful and harmless reasons.²

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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