I guess they probably need a test case. A visually impaired person needs to have a reason to access the WHOIS information for a domain that godaddy is registrar of record of, then the lawsuits can begin...
Or maybe these guys can provide some input: http://www.grcmc.org/blindser/ On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Thomas Mon wrote: > I just read this message from Bill and I was wondering if anyone had > fowarded this message to any type of "Sight Impaired" organizations. This > is clearly not a very friendly thing to do and they should be stopped. > > Tom. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 10:54 AM > Subject: Registrar's in violation of WHOIS port 43 requirement; was re: > InterNIC > > > > *I'm singling out Godaddy as a blatant violator of WHOIS port 43 due to > > the e-mail I received from the "assistant to the president" when I pointed > > out politely that their port 43 WHOIS service (as required by ICANN) > > wasn't working. Godaddy's assistant to the president stated that the > > "standard way" (I haven't seen this RFC) to look up WHOIS information is > > to use the registrar's website; turn cookies on so they can track you; > > turn images on; and manually type the number seen in the image... sight > > impaired people can forget getting any WHOIS information at Godaddy. > >
