Re[2]: verio mining the opensrs whois database

[William X. Walsh]

Hello Richard,

Monday, July 31, 2000, 8:32:11 PM, you wrote:

> Is there any update on what we can do to stop Verio from stealing 
> from us? I got an advertisment from Verio today that could have come 
> from no source other than the OpenSRS database.

> I had a customer ask me last week about the ad he got from Verio. I 
> asked him, "Would you trust a company that stole propietary 
> information in order to conatact you to host your business web site?"

Verio is accessing public information.  They are not stealing
anything.

As annoying as it is, there is nothing legally wrong with what they
are doing.  They have access to the zone files, and they check for
newly added domains, and then they do a whois only on those domains.

It is not unique to Tucows, and nothing illegal is being done.

What would you have done?

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Best regards,
 William                            mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]