On 4/10/2004 12:57 PM Roger B.A. Klorese noted that:
And we contact the people responsible for domains how?
Leave nameserver and registrar in the whois record and add RIR referral information. This gets you something that looks like this...
> whois byte.org
Domain ID:D78859576-LROR
Domain Name:BYTE.ORG
Name Server:207.178.248.2
Name Server:207.178.248.3
Sponsoring Registrar:R11-LROR
RIR NS Referral: http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=!%20NET-207-178-248-0-1
...or similar. It really gives you all the contact information you need.
But that *forces* me to go to someone higher up the food chain, even when it's not specifically desired by the domain owner. That hassle turns a casual communication into a superhuman effort, raising the bar so high that, for instance, I'm unlikely to send the "are you aware one of your users is spamming?" mail before just putting a block in place...
