“The internet is filled with fakes,” writes Gizmodo. “A court in India is setting out to address the problem by requiring more transparency from domain registrars to make it easier to crack down on fraud. And while the intentions might be good, Reuters is reporting that major American domain registrar GoDaddy is sounding the warning bells that the court’s decision could fundamentally reshape the internet well beyond India’s borders.”
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The predictable outcome here is registrars over-complying to cover themselves. “Verify fake site operators” turns into KYC for everyone, and the people who actually get burned are journalists and activists with legit reasons not to attach an ID to a domain. Took years to get WHOIS privacy normalized and this kind of rule just reintroduces the problem one layer down.
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