以后，请远离.net域名：ICANN 提议允许域名被任何政府扣押

内容提要：ICANN 和 Verisign 在 .NET 注册协议续期提议中悄悄对全球域名政策做出了重大改变，允许任何政府取消、重定向和扣押域名。这项提议目前只针对 .NET 域名，但随着其它顶级域名如 .COM 的注册协议到期，该政策预计也将适用于这些域名。这项提议引发了广泛争议，这意味着对注册者没有任何正当程序的保护。

ICANN 和 Verisign 在 .NET 注册协议续期提议中悄悄对全球域名政策做出了重大改变，允许任何政府取消、重定向和扣押域名。这项提议目前只针对 .NET 域名，但随着其它顶级域名如 .COM 的注册协议到期，该政策预计也将适用于这些域名。这项提议引发了广泛争议，这意味着对注册者没有任何正当程序的保护。目前该提议正在征询公众意见，计划截至日期为 2023 年 5 月 25 日。

Longtime Slashdot reader GeorgeK and author at FreeSpeech.com writes:ICANN and Verisign have quietly proposed enormous changes to global domain name policy in their proposed renewal of the .NET registry agreement, which is now open for public comments. They've proposed allowing any government in the world to cancel, redirect, or transfer to their control applicable domain names. This is an outrageous and dangerous proposal that must be stopped, as it does not respect due process. While this proposal is currently only for .NET domain names, presumably they would want to also apply it to other extensions like .COM as those contracts come up for renewal."This proposal represents a complete government takeover of domain names, with no due process protections for registrants," adds Kirikos. "It would usurp the role of registrars, making governments go directly to Verisign (or any other registry that adopts similar language) to achieve anything they desired. It literally overturns more than two decades of global domain name policy."

Furthermore, Kirikos claims ICANN and Verisign "have deliberately timed the comment period to avoid public scrutiny." He writes: "The public comment period opened on April 13, 2023, and is scheduled to end (currently) on May 25, 2023. However, the ICANN76 public meeting was held between March 11 and March 16, 2023, and the ICANN77 public meeting will be held between June 12 and June 15, 2023. Thus, they published the proposal only after the ICANN76 public meeting had ended (where we could have asked ICANN staff and the board questions about the proposal), and seek to end the public comment period before ICANN77 begins. This is likely not by chance, but by design."

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长期阅读Slashdot的GeorgeK和FreeSpeech.com的作者写道：

ICANN和Verisign在其拟议的.NET注册协议续期中悄悄提出了对全球域名政策的巨大修改，该协议现已公开征求公众意见。他们提议允许世界上任何政府取消、重定向或转移到他们控制的适用域名。这是一个令人愤慨和危险的提议，必须予以制止，因为它不尊重正当程序。虽然这项提议目前只适用于.NET域名，但随着这些合同的续签，他们可能也想将其应用于其他扩展，如.COM。

Kirikos补充道：“这项提案代表着政府完全接管域名，对注册者没有正当程序保护。”。“这将篡夺注册商的角色，使政府直接求助于威瑞信（或任何其他采用类似语言的注册商）来实现他们想要的任何目标。这实际上颠覆了20多年的全球域名政策。”

此外，Kirikos声称，ICANN和Verisign“故意安排了评论期，以避免公众审查。”他写道：“公众评论期于2023年4月13日开始，计划（目前）于2021年5月25日结束。然而，ICANN76公开会议于2023年3月11日至3月16日举行，ICANN77公开会议将于2023月12日至6月15日举行。因此，他们只有在ICANN76公开会议结束后才公布了该提案（我们本可以就此提案向ICANN工作人员和董事会提出问题），并试图在ICANN77开始之前结束公众评论期。这可能不是偶然的，而是有意为之。"