> 2) Several registrars will temporarily block your IP after > just a very few Whois accesses.
And some registrars (i.e. godaddy) will provide bogus information via port 43 WHOIS to all of their competitors (yet they provide valid information to all WHOIS requests coming from ICANN controlled networks to hide what they are doing--talk about lack of ethics). You know you've made the big time when your netblock is added to their list.