Andrew, I think that there is a major difference between the individual decision of an operator to block a whole TLD (as you rightfully point out, this is the internet so it is their choice) and the endorsement of this approach by bodies as the UASG. If I remember correctly, your initial question was: “Does UASG have a view about this?”. The fact that some operators do block whole TLDs is what it is, a fact. That we endorse is as a policy, is a completely different matter. Or am I missing something? Cheers, R
On 02.05.2018, at 15:56, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 10:28:15AM -0700, Paul Stahura wrote:
folks should not block entire TLDs, only subdomains which is what happens in all legacy TLDs. I doubt any admin is blocking ALL of .com, .biz, .uk etc
I think you are quite incorrect that people are not blocking all of .biz (or all of .info) today. There definitely are people who do that. This is the Internet, of course, so if they want to do that it's their choice. If they're doing it because they think a given TLD is insufficiently aggressive about stepping on sources of abuse, then perhaps that will encourage TLD operators to enforce the T&C.
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