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
