Interesting you would mention this. Shortly after I registered a domain with OpenSRS
I got persistant phone calls from Verio to try to sell me web service. The only thing
I could figure is that they were looking for www. records which I had not set up.
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 02:25:30PM -0000, Alex Kells wrote:
> I remember some time ago there was some discussion of this...
>
> A federal judge dealt a significant victory to domain name registrar
> Register.com in a lawsuit against Web hosting firm Verio Inc. over
> unauthorized use of data about its customers.
>
> In a ruling in U.S. District Court in New York City, Judge Barbara Jones
> ordered Verio to stop using customer contact information housed in
> Register.com's Whois database to carry out a massive telephone and e-mail
> market campaign.
>
> http://www.wirednews.com/news/business/0,1367,40609,00.html
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