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

Wed Nov 8 23:00:45 EAT 2017

Hi Tomslin,

Reading the paper again I get your point that said, and speaking as someone
with previous experience operating an ICANN accredited Registrar, it is not
easy drafting multiple policies to suit various gTLDs and ccTLDs operating
across multiple jurisdictions with different legal frameworks when your
ultimate goal is to make money from selling domain names across various
gTLDs or ccTLDs, compliance can be a costly venture and every business will
always look for areas in which it can cut costs. Finding a middle ground in
my humble opinion is normally the best route. ccTLDs and gTLDs are subject
to laws and regulations of various jurisdictions within which they are
used. This will get more interesting as from may next year when the general
data protection regulation which affects data that relates to  entities in
the European Union. Who knows what the ripple effect of GDPR will be?,
African countries that are major trading partners with the EU might have to
adjust or implement data protection acts to comply with the the regulation.
That said and again looking at the Verisign Domain Name Industry Brief vis
a vis the Domain Wire Global TLD report published by the Council for
European National Top Level Domain Registries , i see a trend where there
is steady growth in the ccTLDs space compared to the gTLDs meaning
registrars are likely to pay equal attention to ccTLDs as they do to gTLDs
hence they might want to comply with Policy requirements set out by ccTLDs
and find a balance for gTLDs which are less fussy with regards to policy
requirements.

On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 10:35 PM, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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