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For your information,

The ICANN BoD mailing list is very busy discussing issues related to the VRSG Sitefinder "service". The initial action has been, as already posted by Thomas, a request to voluntarily suspend the service. Following the statement of the IAB, and individual comments from the IETF community, I am expecting (but take it only as a personal opinion) a stronger position in the future.

An interesting scenario has been also evaluated. Suppose that some company is unhappy about VRSG returning something different than NXDOMAIN for a name confusingly similar to an existing trademark, and gets a judge to oblige VRSG to reply accordingly, the practice of dealing with different names in different ways would be openly in violation of the protocol.

Roberto GAETANO
ALAC
ICANN BoD Liaison

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