Banning the use of privacy and proxy services to hide details of domain name registrants would have privacy implications for lawful users of those services. ICANN says privacy services play a role in obscuring the identities of parties engaged in illegal or harmful activities such as phishing, typosquatting, hosting child abuse sexual images, advanced fee fraud, or the online sale of counterfeit pharmaceuticals. The organization wants to make the Whois system more transparent by introducing an Online Accuracy Reporting System to identify potentially inaccurate contact data.”]

