Yes, it has always been an ICANN requirement.
I am always amazed by questions like these. If you are in the domain
registration business, you should be very familar with the ICANN policies,
whether you are accredited or not as your registrations are governed by
the very same policies.
As always, ICANN's site is at http://www.icann.org/
> Is this true?
>
> This has been the subject of fierce debate in the anti-spamming community (of
> which I am a member), as a result of spamming by people who have obtained
> official whois databases.
>
> Can someone at OPenSRS please confirm/deny (delete as appropriate) that they
> have/have not (delete as appropriate) sold their customer whois database for
> commercial purposes - e.g. UCE/spamming?
>
> Adrian Cooper.
>
>
> :
> > > OK, so can some kind soul please direct me to a registrar that has a
> > > published/posted privacy policy that prohibits this sort of thing?
> > >
> > > I want to find such a registrar and then move all of my domains there.
> >
> > Good luck. To be a registrar, you must be willing to sell your whois
> > database for *NO MORE* than $10k. Netsol recently bought at least the
> > opensrs/tucows database and have been snail-mail shotting domains that
> > are going to expire in less than 3 months.
> >
> > You really have to love ICANN sometimes.
>
>
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