> I'd say that if Verio is mining the data in this fashion a complaint needs
> to be made with NSI.
I made a complaint last week and, as expected, Verio's activity does not
fall under the NSI limitation. From NSI:
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Your email concerning use of the TLD zone files for mass marketing purposes
has been forwarded to me for response. Thank you for your inquiry. In
answer to your question, the TLD zone file access agreement's specific
prohibition against the transmission of unsolicited, commercial email
(spam), is based upon the fact that the recipient of an email message bears
the cost of receiving the message in time spent online. Conversely,
unsolicited communications via telephone or mail do not ordinarily have a
financial impact upon the recipient.
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I can understand this. After discussing the issue in here last week, I
agree that Verio's practices are "not cool" but do not appear to violate any
NSI or ICANN agreement and certainly not any law.
But I guess this means we can all solicit Verio's sizeable customer base,
extracting the information from the TLD zone file, without remorse.
Jeff Dafoe
System Administrator
Evolution Communications, Inc.
