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WHOIS Problem Reporting System to Gain Privacy Option

Summary: ICANN runs the WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System (WDPRS), which lets Internet community members alert registrars to domain registrations with incomplete or inaccurate contact records, and it began sharing reporters' names and email addresses with the registrars for each offending domain. ICANN director of contractor compliance Stacy Burnette said the organization will adjust the system so a reporter can elect whether identity information is revealed, but declined to give a date for the change.

What's compelling: Anti-spam activist Ronald Guilmette said forwarding reporter information has a chilling effect that will discourage people from filing reports for fear of retaliation - and the registrars receiving those identities include ones that, in his words, are not lily white.

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