Um, UCE is a violation of WHOIS access terms and all of the "bulk
access" licenses I have seen prohibit it as well.
I think some people are confusing the legal types of solicitation (snail
mail, telephone) with e-mail (UCE/spam). Solicitation by telephone and
snail mail are not prohibited by ICANN. Solicitation by e-mail is.
> When I register a domain, I am certainly not thereby giving permission for my
> email address, provided for domain administration purposes only, to be used for
> commercial email purposes.
> If this data is to be continued to be made available by registrars, then, when
> registering an email address against a domain registration, we should be asked
> whether we expressly consent to that email address being sold, or otherwise made
> available to third parties for commercial purposes.
>
> IMO - ICANN are setting an exceptionally bad precedent here, and should think
> again.
