> > 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.
Blocking the competitors is one thing, but isn't providing false information fraud? -- I used to be indecisive, now I'm not so sure.
