[PC-NCSG] Donuts and private copyright policies of the Domain Name Association

[Kathy Kleiman]

Hi All,  I have an issue to raise with the Policy Committee. I am 
concerned about Donuts' "Healthy Domain Initiative." I don't think it is 
healthy at all. Donuts and their private Domain Name Association are 
setting up "best practices" that allow the Motion Picture Association to 
be a "trusted notifier" of copyright infringement. Then, without due 
process or any real rights whatsoever, Donuts will take down not only 
the content, but the whole domain name - websites, listservs, emails and 
all!

What concerns me to also is that Mason Cole misused his GNSO-GAC Liaison 
"hat" to present the Domain Name Association's private, biased, 
one-sided, and deeply unfair copyright initiatives to the GAC in 
Helsinki. I listened closely to each moment of his presentation. By the 
time he finished, I am very certain that every GAC member present 
thought that the Healthy Domains Initiative (and its unfair, unbalanced 
takedown of content through takedown of the domain names) was coming 
from ICANN's Multistakeholder process -- when nothing could be farther 
from the truth!  It's all private - and unfair.

Donuts/ DNA's "Healthy Domains Initiative" is also titled to create 
confusion with ICANN's gTLD Marketplace Health Index -- a legitimate 
multistakeholder efforts working on measurements for gTLDs on 
competition, etc. (and definitely not developing copyright regulation 
thru the DNS!!)

I thought I would throw this issue out for you -- do you share my 
concern?  Should we investigate together further?

Best and tx,

Kathy