At 10:58 PM 11/27/2002, you wrote:
Robert L Mathews wrote:
You mean that, as a citizen of the net, I have no right to contact the
owner of an Internet-connected site about abuse coming from their site
immediately and via all possible contact methods -- which is, after all,
the real reason for the WHOIS contact info? You mean I should have to go
through some intermediary like their registrar?
Dealing specifically with the abuse aspect, you should go through their
ISP, who is more than likely registered in an ARIN (or similar) database
for the IP space they are using... generally dealing with the end user
regarding abuse leads to dealing with the ISP once you get ignored by the
user... after all they are ultimately the ones responsible for the usage of
their IP space.
Nonsense.
Crack down on abuse, and leave those of us who need the information free
to have it. I think it's fine that a public point of contact is the
price of Internet citizenship -- we never neded all of those personalized
domains anyway.
Then again, I don't make any money off what should still be a zero-cost
service -- especially since it is actually hundreds of times easier and
cheaper to register a domain than it was when it was free.
