Unfortunately, according to ICANN mandate, all the information has to be
correct and verifiable - or you may lose the domain for compliance reasons.
Sad, but true.
Charles Daminato
OpenSRS Product Manager
Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Duane Cook
> Sent: August 31, 2001 4:30 PM
> To: Mark Jeftovic
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Bizland spam
>
>
>
> I leave everything blank (or put false info) on my domains
> except for email address. which goes to a account I never check.
>
> I had companies like bizland mailing me snail mail, and calling as well.
>
> I think the policies should be updated so private info is not
> displayed in
> whois
> and accessible for spammers. I personally think its invasion of privacy
> for this
> information to be "Required"
>
> All you really need to see is: registrar, owner, dates, and dns servers
> Leave the rest off, or hide it somehow.
>
> Duane
>
> At 03:54 PM 8/31/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Leland V. Lammert wrote:
> >
> > > At 04:39 PM 8/30/01 -0700, William X Walsh wrote:
> > >
> > > >Bizland sent out a huge number of unsolicited email ads for
> webhosting
> > > >service today that were clearly whois harvested, and even
> included the
> > > >domain name. They tried to make them look opt-in, but due to the
> > > >nature of some privacy arrangements we have setup for some customers,
> > > >we know for a fact that this was not an opt-in campaign (it would be
> > > >impossible for them to claim that these addresses opt-ed in).
> > >
> > > Bill,
> > >
> > > If you don't want to receive any UCE, .. don't list your
> email anywhere.
> > > There is no way to keep somebody like Bizland from harvesting
> emals from a
> > > public source.
> > >
> > > It's not worth worrying about, .. nor worth taking list bandwidth.
> > >
> > > Lee
> > >
> >
> >Lee, telling people not to list their email address anywhere when they
> >are in the domain name business (and thus have hundreds or thousands or
> >even hundreds of thousands of whois records) is pretty useless advice.
> >
> >Personally I think I should be able to register a domain and not get
> >clobbered with crud the next day. These practices make first time
> >domain buyers, and newbies to the net especially gunshy and generally
> >turned off.
> >
> >The spam comes in so fast after regging their name they think the people
> >they bought the name from are either the ones spamming them or that their
> >personal info has been sold (many of them are not even aware of what
> >a whois record is)
> >
> >So this is a larger issue "not liking to recieve to spam". It has
> >customer relations aspects and when you're dealing with a lot of
> >domain names it adds up (perhaps you are not regging enough domains
> >that its effects have become noticable to you at a business level).
> >
> >In short, it is worth worrying about.
> >
> >-mark
> >
> >P.S. I case you thought I would post on this topic without plugging the
> >whois-harverster-buster at http://myprivacy.ca, you thought wrong :)
> >
> >
> >--
> >mark jeftovic
> >http://www.easydns.com
> >http://mark.jeftovic.net
>
