Why should alleged "cybercriminals" not be be allowed to register domain names? There are procedures of seizing domain names in various countries, and these are in my opinion already somewhat questionable, but the premise of this article seems to go far beyond that and suggest that what they call "malicious actors" should somehow be deprived of infrastructure because they are suspected criminals. The rationale for that is that they later show up on blocking lists...?

That seems beyond any reasonable due process and legal standards. Or am I missing some international legal standard and judicial oversight that would play a role here? I'm genuinely confused.

This is exactly what a delay accomplishes: a trivial annoyance to legit users, but a real overhead to bots trying to hit-and-run users.

Much like micropayments could solve the text spam problem.