[kictanet] A Moral Internet?- The Registrars' Secret Weapon

[Barrack Otieno]

Hi Tomslin,

Please read the following statement (ToS of 74 registrars who manage 90% of
all domains.) In that case , the statement should be rephrased to specify
that focus is on generic Top Level domains as opposed to all domains. Be
that as it may , i was reading the domain wire global TLD report which had
the following statistics. At the end of Q4 (2016) there were 309.4 million
domain names across all TLDs. Out of this ccTLDs were 123.9 Million. From
the statistics you can see that ccTLDs have significant registrations which
may lend credence to the hypothesis i made.

Best

On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 10:20 PM, Tomslin Samme-Nlar <mesumbeslin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Barrack,
> I believe the paper focuses on only gTLDs though, where it is expected for
> the registrars not to assume the role of moral policing.
>
>
> ----
> Tomslin
>
>
> On 8 November 2017 at 15:17, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mercy,
>>
>>
>> Most registrars that register Country Code Top Level Domain registries
>> encounter this requirement. A high number of Country Code Top Level Domain
>> Registries are under some form of supervision by Regulatory Agencies across
>> the globe. This is especially so in Africa where a majority of the
>> registries (approximately 40 %) are operated by a regulator , government
>> institution or University as such it is common to find clauses limiting
>> offensive and inappropriate registrations in the registry policy. This is a
>> debatable issue but again governments serve as moral police within their
>> respective territories. The case is different for generic Top Level Domain
>> registries which are more consumer driven, (the .xxx kind)
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 6:40 AM, kanini mutemi via kictanet <
>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>
>>> The Internet Governance Project did an analysis of the ToS of 74
>>> registrars who manage 90% of all domains. Their findings are intriguing
>>> especially since they show that there is a link between domain name policy
>>> and internet content regulation.
>>>
>>> e.g.:
>>>
>>> *We found the ToS of 26 registrars using the term “moral” in some
>>> manner, ranging from prohibiting use of the domain that is “contrary to” or
>>> “violates good morals”, or requiring that the domain or content found at
>>> the domain "must comply with...social public morals” or “good morals", to
>>> the most frequently found restriction of domain name use in "morally
>>> objectionable activities". *
>>>
>>> https://via.hypothes.is/http://www.internetgovernance.org/wo
>>> rdpress/wp-content/uploads/AmoralReg-PAPER-final.pdf
>>>
>>> Might be of interest.
>>>
>>> --
>>> *Mercy Mutemi*.
>>>
>>>
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