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11:45 CEST (UTC+2), 10 June 2026 09:45 UTC, 10 June 2026 Sala Club (Committee Breakout 3) - Floor 2 ID# 18176
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As ICANN’s contractual frameworks and policy development processes evolve, the human rights implications of technical and procedural decisions demand equal urgency. This interactive session examines what happens to registrants and end users when we don’t have adequate safeguards and remedies. We open with DNS abuse mitigation as our grounding example. The Associated Domain Check mechanism illustrates the problem: a single abusive domain might trigger an investigative sweep across an entire registrant portfolio, exposing domains held on behalf of activists, independent media, or vulnerable communities to suspension or collateral harm, without those registrants ever having done anything wrong. Association is not confirmation. We will examine what must limit the scope of ADC investigations, what should never trigger one, and what remedy looks like when the mechanism is weaponized through bad-faith reporting designed to suppress legitimate speech.
If we get the time, Hijacked domains anchor this section as the hardest case: what recovery looks like when there are no safeguards, when hijacked domains are not recognized as a form of DNS abuse and there is no functioning remedy pipeline. We then turn to the deeper structural question those examples expose: law enforcement authentication. Registries and registrars are being asked to respond to requests from law enforcement agencies for nonpublic registration data, including under urgent request procedures, without standardized, rights-respecting authentication mechanisms in place. The SSAD Supplemental Recommendations Team is now discussing this. But the core questions remain unanswered: which jurisdictions’ law enforcement qualifies, who decides, what transparency and accountability obligations attach, and what safeguards and remedies protect registrants from authentication mechanisms being used against them by state actors.
Session Leader: Andrea Glandon Staff Facilitator: Andrea Glandon
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