On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 03:33:56PM -0400, Ross Wm. Rader wrote:
>
> >
> > You're answering a different question to the one I asked.
> > I know about that interpretation of the ICANN agreement. I'm asking
> > *have* they sold the database.
>
>
> Yes we have...
>
> The contract does not permit us to mention to whom tho. I can say that only
> three companies have entered into contract with us. Two of which are top
> three registrars and one of which is the world leader in trademark and
> copyright services.
Hmmm... you can't say... but if I remember right, the top 3 (in order) are
nsi, register.com and tucows.
OK, so we can discount tucows.
NSI are spammers. No questions about that.
register.com are spam friendly.
> For those that are interested, I've uploaded the Bulk Whois contract to
> http://www.byte.org/docs
>
> There are four different versions there if you are really interested in the
> evolution of the contract. v1.1.2 is the most current and 1.1.3 is about to
> become current (but wasn't uploaded because I don't have approval on it
> yet.)
Thanks. How do you monitor violations of the terms of the contract?
Cheers
John
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