On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 12:32:47AM -0600, Dave Warren wrote: > > > > I don't know what the particulars are but if they did mine the whois > > I'm guessing that their lawyer will be canceling his summer > > vacation... but ordering a new sports car. :-) > > Unfortunately, they ARE allowed to mail out solicitations, just not email > (Based on my understanding of the ICANN regs)
They're allowed to mail out solicitations, but those solicitations have to be legal. For Verisign or Register.com or DRO[AC] to send a mailing entitled "Renewal Notice" may constitute mail fraud if the notice tries to hide the fact that you're not already a customer of the advertiser. The whois data is just data. ICANN's regulations prohibit use of that data for UBE, but it's outside the scope of ICANN's mandate to protect us from use of that data in solicitations via traditional media. And to be annoying about this, it shouldn't even be ICANN's responsibility to prohibit use of whois data for UBE. We should all be protected by law from that sort of theft, rather than by corporate regulation. As it turns out, ICANN is almost as powerless as local law enforcement in curbing this sort of FUD-mongering behaviour. What these companies really need is a good dose of Fourierism. Nobody allowed out of their sandbox. -- Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Operations / Development / Abuse / Whatever vox: +1 416 598-0000 it.canada http://www.it.ca/
