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<i><b>We submit the following comments (below and attached) to the
EWG.</b></i><i><b><br>
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</b></i><i><b>Sincerely,</b></i><i><b><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i
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normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Kathy
Kleiman<br>
Tamir Israel<br>
Milton Mueller<br>
Roy Balleste<br>
Robin Gross<br>
Avri Doria<br>
Marie-Laure Lemineur<br>
Edward Morris <br>
All members of the NCSG</span></i></b><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri">**************************************************<br>
</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Who
on the EWG
Specializes in Abuse of the Whois Data?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri">As we
look down the list of the members of the EWG, we see a number
of people who use
the Whois data – regularly and on a daily basis. But what we <b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">do
not see </i></b>is people who work with <b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">abuse of the Whois data
regularly and on a
daily basis. <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Who on
the EWG brings to the work the day-to-day <b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">abuse of the Whois data</i></b>,
not only to
spam, but to stalk, harass, intimidate, threaten, fight, bully
and even jail or
worse? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Who on
the EWG knows firsthand the threats that have come from large
companies, large
law firms and large governments who seek to exploit their
positions as
competitors and dictators to intimidate, harass, disclose and
threaten smaller
companies, entrepreneurs, organizations and individuals?<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Who has seen the speakers
driven off the
Internet, the families threatened and the bad acts exposed –
including by
competitors and dictators? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri">We
in the NCSG strongly call on the EWG to STOP its current work
and return to first
principles – to identify not only the uses of Whois, but the
abuses as well. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri">We note
that studies of Whois data will NOT provide this data (as we
were intimately
involved in drafting these studies). However, to balance the
array of trademark
attorneys and trademark representatives, we call on the EWG to
hear about the qualitative
experiences of those who have worked firsthand in Whois abuse
and are easily
available within the ICAN community.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>They include: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Kathryn
Kleiman (co-founder of the Domain Name Rights and
Noncommercial Users
Constituency based on her anger after massive abuses of Whois
data)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:Calibri"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1
lfo1;
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style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Wendy
Seltzer, founder of the Chilling Effects Project, originally
at the Electronic
Frontier Foundation and now hosted at Harvard’s Berkman Center
for Internet
& Society (including letters sent that go far beyond
normal protocol to
threaten, harass, malign, and manipulate domain name
Registrants largely
exploiting the large-small imbalance and the threats that can
reach Registrants
and intimidate them to feel endangered in their homes)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri">John
Berryhill, an attorney who has represented numerous maligned
and threatened
Registrants in UDRP/domain name dispute proceedings and
received more findings
of “Reverse Domain Name Hijacking” than any other attorney (a
finding that the
trademark owner abused the process of the UDRP).<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>John Berryhill knows firsthand the abuse of the Whois
data to threaten,
intimidate and harass Registrants. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Other
attorneys who represent Registrants.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri">We
call on the EWG
to put together a panel to meet with it (in person or by
telephone) at the
meeting in </span></i></b><st1:place><st1:city><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Calibri">Washington</span></i></b></st1:city><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Calibri"> </span></i></b><st1:state><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Calibri">DC</span></i></b></st1:state></st1:place><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Calibri"> next week or
at its next
scheduled meeting.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>This
is an issue that
should not be further ignored. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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