Fergie's Tech Blog

ICANN's OPoC Proposal

Via DomainNews.com.

Recently, ICANN created an Operational Point of Contact Proposal (OPoC) where registrants of top level (.com, .net) domains would be required to list only one contact’s postal, email and phone info. Currently, domains are listed with the registrant’s name, a tech contact and an admin contact. The registrant provides a postal address, while the other contacts provide full postal, email, phone and fax info. In addition, primary and secondary servers are openly listed.

Until now, the WHOIS database or the Internet “white pages” has been the primary way to find information about domain registrants as well as to protect Internet users from such risks as sales fraud, brand theft and counterfeit. Imagine if all of this information suddenly disappeared or was no longer easily available?

posted by Fergie @ 7/06/2007 09:40:00 AM