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Reston, Virginia - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - December 5, 2005 - More than 200 delegates from the global domain space community gathered for a privacy conference at the recent Vancouver, Canada, ICANN meeting. The conference was sponsored by the Public Interest Registry (PIR), the .ORG registry; the ICANN Noncommercial Users Constituency; The Registry Constituency; and Cole, and Raywid and Braverman LLP.

The conference was entitled, “Building Bridges on ICANN WHOIS Questions” and addressed WHOIS data privacy issues; and how the .UK., .JP and .CA country code top-level domain registries are protecting their customers’ data; and gain insight from other industries’ data protection models, including TELUS. In addition, for the first time in a public forum, registries, registrars and the Noncommercial Users Constituency proposed their own data protection models.

The keynote speaker, Ms. Stephanie Perrin, Director of Research and Policy for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, examined the Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) that was passed in 2000 and its impact on the WHOIS data policy for the Canadian Internet Registrar Authority (CIRA), the registry for .CA.

David Maher, Senior Vice President of Law and Policy for PIR commented, ”PIR is pleased to have sponsored this event. This is a concrete demonstration of our commitment to a strong privacy policy for people who register domain names in the .ORG top-level domain. We see no reason for continuing the present rules that require us to make personal data, such as home phone numbers and addresses, available to anyone who uses the WHOIS inquiry system. Privacy is an important matter and is an issue worth fighting for. The time has come for a reform, and we believe that the privacy conference in Vancouver is an important step in moving forward on this issue. It brought together recognized experts from around the world to forge an alliance for progress.”

Michael Geist, a CIRA director and chair of PIR’s Advisory Council Policy Committee added, ”CIRA has been a leader in WHOIS policy reform. The proposed CIRA WHOIS policy strikes an appropriate balance between privacy protection and legitimate access to domain name registrant information. It is heartening to see other registries, including PIR, addressing privacy concerns within their respective registry frameworks.”

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