The 2010 Domain Pulse, hosted by SWITCH (the .CH registry) was held
in the snowy Swiss city of Luzern. Domain Name Security (DNS) was of
particular importance in this year's meeting with DNSSEC being
implemented in the root zone in 2010 by ICANN, and by many registries in
the next few years.
ICANN plan to have all root servers signed with DNSSEC by mid-2010 Kim
Davies, Manager, Root Zone Services at ICANN told the meeting on Monday, starting
with the L root server, then A root server with the last being the J
root server as all are gradually signed.
ICANN has taken a conservative approach to deploying DNSSEC to ensure
there are no mistakes in its implementation, said Davies.
Meanwhile a discussion on the registration of domain names that are
responsible for illegal content, such as phishing or child pornography,
was hotly discussed.
A discussion with lawyers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland said in
varying degrees that when it is difficult to contact the domain
registrant, that using the registrar as a means of deleting the domain
name was justified.
All three lawyers, Clara-Ann Gordon (Switzerland), Dr. Boris Uphoff
(Germany) and Michael Pilz (Austria) said that when it is difficult to
contact the domain registrant, that using the registrar as a means of
deleting the domain name.
Difficulties can often occur in the event of such a domain name registration when the
registrant includes false registration information.
The registries, represented by their legal counsel Stephan Welzel
(DENIC), Barbara Schlossbauer (nic.at) and Nicole Beranek Zanon (SWITCH)
took this discussion further and explained what happens when there are
difficulties in contacting registrants such as when there is illegal use
of the domain name, such as illegal content.
In the case of phishing, in Austria if the registry is certain the
content is legal the domain name is deleted, in Germany the domain name
is not deleted as they believe the domain name is not the problem but
the content is while in Switzerland they temporarily block the domain
until the legal situation is sorted out.
Videos of all presentations, mostly in German, are available on the
Domain Pulse website at domainpulse.ch although without
simultaneous translations as occurred during the meeting.