For the purpose of the same ICANN put forward a proposal and kept it open for comments until July 7.
Interestingly it attracted more than eleven thousand responses.
The questions posed to the public by ICANN were:
§ Should registrants of domain names associated with commercial activities and which are used for online financial transactions be prohibited from using, or continuing to use, P/P services? If so, why, and if not, why not?
§ If you agree with this position, do you think it would be useful to adopt a definition of “commercial” or “transactional” to define those domains for which P/P service registrations should be disallowed? If so, what should the definition(s) be?
§ Would it be necessary to make a distinction in the WHOIS data fields to be displayed as a result of distinguishing between domain names used for online financial transactions and domain names that are not?
The decision, if turns out to be positive may curb internet freedom to a limit; but on the contrary it may aid in investigation of the increasing abuse happening via fake/fraudulent domains over the internet.
