We have been getting e-mails telling me I can buy the WhoIs for a couple hundred dollars!
-- Mike Allen, 4CheapDomains.Net [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.4CheapDomains.Net (812) 275-8425 - Office (815) 364-1278 - Fax ----- Original Message ----- From: "Swerve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Derek J. Balling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 4:17 PM Subject: Re: Geektools whois proxy - OpenSRS Whois Results > Interesting point. I agree that Icann should STOP the selling of bulk lists > thru it's registrars. How Icann justifies this is beyond me. > > It's rediculous and basically promotes spamming. All you need is one copy > to get dup'd, and then it spreads like a virus. > > Swerve > > > > > From: "Derek J. Balling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:28:57 -0400 > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: Geektools whois proxy - OpenSRS Whois Results > > > > At 3:57 PM -0400 6/12/02, Swerve wrote: > >> Do you have any suggestions of how to protect email addresses from being > >> harvested from the whois by spammers and pseudo opt-in companies? > > > > 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. > > > > D > > > > -- > > > > +---------------------+-----------------------------------------+ > > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "Thou art the ruins of the noblest man | > > | Derek J. Balling | That ever lived in the tide of times. | > > | | Woe to the hand that shed this costly | > > | | blood" - Julius Caesar Act 3, Scene 1 | > > +---------------------+-----------------------------------------+ > >
