At 11/5/02 1:42 PM, George Kirikos wrote: >Hopefully this is a lesson ICANN and others can learn from [...] >transparent WHOIS (to make it harder to commit cybercrimes, the >average person can identify a crime that might be about to happen).
I beg to differ. The only reason people can pull this scam is *because* WHOIS information is publicly available. If domain ownership records were completely private, it would be much more difficult to pull off this kind of domain hijacking, because the hijacker would not know if a domain had an invalid admin contact address (or what it was). ------------------------------------ Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
