An organization like ICANN should not be concerned with the specific uses people are giving to their domain names.
Their mission should be to create a system that makes it convenient for actors to identify each other across the Internet, so that they can communicate arbitrary data. ICANN should be agnostic to the contents of the communications.
I generally don't disagree! But large-scale phishing is a threat to the integrity of the domain name system, so it is in ICANN's interest to crack down on it.
Their mission should be to create a system that makes it convenient for actors to identify each other across the Internet, so that they can communicate arbitrary data. ICANN should be agnostic to the contents of the communications.