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"The National Arbitration Forum has just handed down its decision in respect to the three domain names locked down at Public Domain Registry in response to the City of London Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit takedown requests. The decision is in favour of easyDNS and orders the three names to be transferred to us. - See more at: http://blog.easydns.org/2014/0...

There's no law per se, but there is a recent ICANN requirement called "Whois Accuracy Data Specification". It requires registrars to contact the registrant and click an emailed link as validation that their whois info is correct. The domain can be suspended if the validation isn't done within 15 days.

The intent is good but the implementation is pretty mindboggling. They're expecting every owner of a domain name to check that the email sent to them is not a phishing attempt...how that's supposed to work reliably is anyone's guess.

So, yeah, owners are supposed to verify to the registrars that the info is accurate which you could say is "ICANN's law". But not legally. Here's one of many articles that goes deeper into the issue:

http://blog.easydns.org/2014/0...

It's almost surreal to be getting this letter from the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) addressed to ICANN Registrars requesting that "you adopt and implement policies and procedures, consistent with this letter,", given the timing of what we just went through with the City of London Police takedown requests. What are those policies and procedures the NAPB wants all ICANN Registrars to adopt? Glad you asked:...

Actually, we learned this technique from our colonial overlords. Then again, some Canadian companies aren't dumb enough to act on that's sent to them...

This is all a bit rich, reading the resolution, considering that is is coming from the country which unilaterally seizes domains at will.

Don't forget as well that this is coming from the same government that proposed a kill switch for the Internet. Sounds more like "nobody should control the Internet, unless it is us" (well, this arguably applies to the US part of the Internet).

The resolution also says: "Whereas the world deserves the access to knowledge, ... and the informed discussion that is the bedrock of democratic self-government that the Internet provides;"
I thought that WikiLeaks and cablegate were exactly the kind of things which promote a healthy discussion in a democracy, but I doubt that that's what they had in mind when they drafted this resolution, free access to knowledge and all.

This all seems more like a bit of patriotic posturing. Blah blah land of the free blah blah cannot trust anybody else to be as free as we are blah blah. Seriously, it does not matter one bit what will be proposed at this conference; how exactly are you going to *force* the US to relinquish control? Not going to happen.

EveryDNS, not EasyDNS. EasyDNS is providing DNS for Wikileaks.ch.

http://blog.easydns.org/2010/12/09/important-the-wikileaks-situation/

This has been quite the problem for EasyDNS, since the whole thing started with a typo on some blog and then was copied verbatium as truth without anybody bothering to check.

Since EasyDNS couldn't handle them anymore. Oh wait, wasn't there a problem with Amazon to start with?

You got the company wrong! EasyDNS actually has volunteered to take on WikiLeaks as a customer. It was *EveryDNS* that bowed to the US government and dropped WikiLeaks.

I have a domain hosted at EasyDNS. They also have my my MX record, and a list of my own 'domain' email accounts. I set up forwarded mail accounts so that mail destined to 'user@myowndomain.com' goes to 'user@rogers.com' at my email service provided to me by my Broadband provider [Rogers].

For my mail through the Rogers webmail service, the "from" account is configured to send out as "user@myowndomain.com" rather than "user@rogers.com", so outbound mail looks like it's coming from my own domain

From my email client on my laptop (Tbird), I actually send mail through easydns and it acts as an outbound service for 'myowndomain.com'. Also, the "from" account is configured to send out as "user@myowndomain.com" rather than "user@rogers.com", so no hassles there either.

It was easy enough to add an account for "dad@myowndomain" for my father's own use, sending to his internet service account (Bell sympatico). It's done fine for us so far.

I'm not sure if this approach would work for everyone, but I'm quite satisfied with it. I also know that there are other settings I've tweaked with (SPF record at EasyDNS, etc)so that my mail doesn't get trapped as 'spam' everywhere I go.