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At [[ICANN Lisbon]] he suggested an intriguing solution regarding the accessibility of [[Whois]] information. That is, to encrypt more sensitive Whois data and only allow certain legal entities to access that through use of a specific key, the most basic of information would still be available to the general public.<ref>[http://blog.domaintools.com/2007/05/paul-stahura-of-demand-media/ Domain Tools Blog Post on Stahura]</ref>
At [[ICANN Lisbon]] he suggested an intriguing solution regarding the accessibility of [[Whois]] information. That is, to encrypt more sensitive Whois data and only allow certain legal entities to access that through use of a specific key, the most basic of information would still be available to the general public.<ref>[http://blog.domaintools.com/2007/05/paul-stahura-of-demand-media/ Domain Tools Blog Post on Stahura]</ref>
In a letter dated December 8th, Stahura, along with twenty-seven other domain name industry participants, wrote to Sen. Jay Rockefeller and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison to support [[ICANN]]'s new [[gTLD]] program, in response to the [[ICANN#New_gTLD_Senate_and_House_of_Representatives_Hearings|Senate Hearings]] taking place on the same day. They supported ICANN's argument that the program would be innovative and economically beneficial, and that the program had taken lots of people a long time to develop, hence it had not been rushed.<ref>[http://domainincite.com/new-gtld-industry-pleads-with-senators/ New gTLD industry pleads with senators, domainincite.com]</ref> Read the letter [http://domainincite.com/docs/Senate-Letter-ICANN-Expansion-of-Top-Level-Domains-08.DEC.2011.pdf here].
==Background==
==Background==