To comply with ICANN and European Union NIS2 requirements, gTLD domain registrars must verify registrant email addresses. This “owner email verification” process was a topic of considerable discussion prior to and during the recent ICANN meeting. 

ICANN is caught in a “failing to see the forest for the trees” situation: neither the findings nor the proposals address the real registrant verification issue.

An email address verification is not proof of identity: it’s a confirmation of control of an email inbox.

Read my complete article at Interisle Consulting Group’s Insights substack.

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