I assume this is supposed to be somewhat tongue-in-cheek, because the argument that SoMeThInG mUsT bE dOnE aBoUt DnS because a whopping 10% of registrations were associated with spam/scams seems silly.

There are lots of large open systems that the average person interacts with daily that would love to see <30% spam/scam volume:

- email - paper mail - telephone numbers - SMS messages - basically any social media platform

> I don't want to live in a world where I have to show my passport and pay thousands of pounds to register a domain which is only available after being vetted by private interests. But I also don't want to live in a world where scammers have effectively no deterrent from abusing millions of people.

One solution would be to have recognised verified TLDs that require some verification on some, whilst allowing others to be more lax an accessibel. The issue is we have these, e.g. .gov.uk.

Another solution would be to dissuade people from using less well known gtlds in favour of ones that have some sort of limits/controls, such as recommending people avoid .mobi domains in favour of ones with more oversight like .com. (I say this as someone with a .fun personal domain!)

I don't know. I'm not saying this isn't a problem, I'm just saying that Terence kicking this nest seems like the start of some monkey paw meme or something.