WASHINGTON, December 22, 2009--The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) enthusiastically supports President Obama’s selection of Mr. Howard A. Schmidt for Chief of Cybersecurity. Mr. Schmidt, who served as vice chairman of President George W. Bush’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Board and chief security officer at Microsoft, brings both public and private sector experience to his new position with the Obama administration. He is highly qualified and should be a tremendous asset to White House cybersecurity efforts.

WASHINGTON, November 17, 2009—The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) supports enhancing the ability of users to navigate the Web in their own languages but urges ICANN to implement protections for Internet users as the organization begins accepting applications for non-Latin script top level domains (IDN ccTLDs).

WASHINGTON, October 30, 2009--The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) supports ICANN’s initiative to examine gTLD WHOIS policy. CADNA’s Top Ten List from September 22, 2009, identified WHOIS reform as a priority action for ICANN.

It is important that all domain names have full and accurate registrant and contact information to enable the identification and prosecution of bad actors. CADNA urges ICANN to ensure that registrars require their customers to display accurate WHOIS records in order to promote accountability in the space.

WASHINGTON, September 22, 2009—With just over a week left before the expiration of the Joint Project Agreement (JPA) between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the Department of Commerce, the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) urges the US government to closely re-examine ICANN's structure, governance, and oversight mechanisms before committing to any further long-term cooperation. Significant adjustments must be made to the JPA in order to remedy the egregious problems CADNA has found with ICANN.