Registrants’ Rights and Responsibilities (Part 9)

This is the ninth entry on a series of posts regarding domain registrants’ rights and responsibilities as discussed by ALAC members.

Disclaimer: This was summarized from an ICANN update and is still subject to further studies by ALAC.

Awareness: Registrants’ Rights and Responsibilities

11. ICANN may decide to publicly display all the names of registrar officers and directors, particularly when a registrar’s accreditation is terminated. It is the registrants rights to know the people behind the company that registered their Internet names.

12. The registrants have the right to excellent service. However, ICANN cannot impose penalties from registrars for perceived poor service, because imposing penalties may not promote and sustain a competitive environment. Therefore, registrants should do their own bit of research before signing up for a domain name.

13. Typosquatting is a process wherein registrants pay for domain names like samsong.com to increase their traffic by getting the visitors of samsung.com who made a mistake in typing. Unfortunately, does not impose rules on how a domain name should be used. Hence, typosquatting is not about to go away. However, if it comes to a point when typosquatting has proven to be harmful to the security, stability, reliability, and global interoperability of the Domain Name System (DNS), the ICANN will step in.

Netpia hopes that through these summarized points on the Rights and Responsibilities of Registrants, the company is able to help the market to make wiser choices and better decisions in domain registration.

Everyone is welcome to e-mail Netpia at inquiry@netpiacorp.com.