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< Let me say this then, and I think I speak for a lot of RSP's:
<
< If: SnapNames' procedure entails them receiving from Tucows
< and/or OpenSRS
< (in real-time or via regular polling) information about my domain-name
< registration activities, or the activities of my users, and if I
< am not, as
< an RSP, given the option of saying "This data may NOT be shared with
< SnapNames", then I will find another registrar.
<
The information that I think that you are referring to is already being
shared with the world via whois, zone files etc. On the other hand, if you
are under the impression that SnapNames is somehow going to find out how
many domain names Derek Balling Inc. has sold in the last 24 hours via this
system, or our cooperation, then you are mistaken - it simply isn't
transmitted *anywhere* because the RRP doesn't support it as part of it's
documented payload. We could modify the payload, but as I understand it,
Snapnames only requires the RRP payload for their purposes (and quite
frankly, we've got better things to do than muck about with new protocol
design and implementations).
< There are HUGE privacy issues here, and everyone is hiding
< behind NDA's to
< not allow us to see how badly our privacy is being raped until after its
< too late to stop it.
The privacy issues already exist. It basically boils down to the reality
that if you don't want people to know anything about your registration
activities, then don't register a domain name. All of the theoretical
privacy violations I have seen raised about this issue already hold true for
zone file publications and whois data. Bar none.
As far as what our plans are, I wasn't being diffuse because we have
something to hide, I was being diffuse because I have absolutely no clue
what our final plans are going to be with this project. I can say definitely
however that our past actions should speak for themselves.
-rwr
