Hi Rosseroni, How does selling the bulk whois benefit domain owners or the customers of the registrars/Icann?
At minimim, rather, mimi, damn, minimum, it should be opt in for domain owners who want their info shared. Default should be that my domain info is not available for the bulk whois unless i explicitly state yes. warm regards, Swerve > From: "Ross Wm. Rader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 17:09:28 -0400 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Derek J. Balling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Geektools whois proxy - OpenSRS Whois Results > >> Rate-limiting the WHOIS servers works really well. The reason your >> address is "harvested" from the WHOIS database has very little, I >> suspect, to do with folks actually combing the whois output, and have >> everything to do with the bulk-availability requirements of the WHOIS >> data that are mandated by the powers-that-be at ICANN. >> >> Implementing, on a whois server, a sensible rate-limiting structure, >> can thwart those unfortunate ones who are crazy enough to query the >> database, one at a time. >> >> If you want your WHOIS record data to not end up in spammers' hands, >> you need to convince ICANN to get rid of the ability of a spamhaus to >> pony up to the table with coin and demand a copy of the thing in full. > > The first statement is spot-on - with the changes in the output, we've also > gotten pretty aggressive with the rate-limiting and outright blocking over > the last week. > > As far as the bulk-whois goes, I've not seen any indication that this is > necessarily true. I would agree that the bulk-whois policies need to be > tightened up though. > > -rwr >
