--On Freitag, August 13, 2004 14:37:43 -0700 "Mark C. Langston"
<mark(_at_)bitshift(_dot_)org> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 02:33:59PM -0700, Jonathan Gardner wrote:
Accreditation will also expedite abuse tracking. Right now, you don't
have to give real, personal information to get a domain name. But with
an accreditation service that functions properly, you would have to
give real information.
Actually, one does have to give real information to get a domain name.
So sayeth ICANN, so implementeth the registries. WHOIS data must be
current and factual.
That's the theory. In the real world you just have to provide the money,
everything else you can lie about. Just go to one of those ionline
registrars, enter som,e fake datat into the web form, use valid crdeit card
dat to pay and you will have a working domain (for some TLDs even in
realtime).
For an SSL certificate you have to provide legal documentation that is
verified. You also get identified by a human being who will compare your
face to the photo on your identity card or passport, compare the names and
record all of this on a paper form that gets sent to the CA and will be
filed there.
This makes a large difference and is the basis for the trust people put in
SSL certificates.
Ralf Döblitz