While their action may not be technically "illegal" according to
ICANN policies, they are most definitely unethical.
This is an area where ICANN definitely needs to take action to
protect the privacy interests of registrants, registrars, and
registration resellers.
On 31 Jul 2000, at 20:38, William X. Walsh wrote:
> 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?
>
> --
> Best regards,
> William mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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Richard B. Pyne, KB7RMU
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http://pyne.kinfolk.org/rbp2
