I'll see what I can find out regarding this for you. Charles Daminato TUCOWS Product Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, ST wrote: > I posted a message last week about my personal .biz domains showing the > wrong contact info in the WhoIs. Well, I just checked the WhoIs on all > 178 domains that were successfully registered through my account. A > total of 18 domains had the wrong contact info, belonging to 7 different > customers (including me). In all cases, if one domain name has the wrong > info, all of that customers names have the same wrong info. However, in > each case, the DNS info is correct. I've checked the original orders in > the RWI, and the contact info is correct. > > Wait! It gets worse. Here's the really scary thing. Some of the contact > info that is there leads me to think that these names were not unique. > For instance, one of the domains that has the wrong contact info is a > real estate related domain. The WhoIs info shows the domain registered > to a woman in Canada. I went to the domain that her email was based on, > and it was a service that specializes in making websites for real estate > firms and marketing them. So it would make sense that this person had > actually applied for that same domain as my customer. > > In another case, the domain deals with email lists, I think. Once again, > I went to the domain that the admin contacts e-mail is based on, and > it's a cheesy internet marketing webpage. > > Hopefully it's just a coincidence, and it's just a matter of NeuLevel > straightening out their WhoIs. > > ST > >
