Roger, Tucows' position is that it is just as important to make sure that the underlying information provided by a registrant is correct and from the actual registrant before turning on the privacy option.
This ensures that our renewal and transfer messaging (and any other registrant messaging sent by Tucows) reaches its destination. This will result in fewer domains 'lost' because of invalid addresses. Registrants have up to 10 days to perform the authorization. If they are concerned about their information being displayed, they can readily confirm the whois privacy option within minutes of receiving the authorization message. Additionally, Tucows has a very low threshold for mining of our public WHOIS. Our data indicates that typically, the initial WHOIS lookups are performed by the reseller or the registrant themselves shortly after registration, and not the data miners. Thanks, Greg Frank Associate Product Manager, TLDs Tucows Inc. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roger B.A. Klorese Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 11:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [domains-gen] Re: OpenSRS Live Reseller Update [OpenSRS] -05/05/2005 > > > 1. When WHOIS Privacy is purchased for a domain name, funds in the > OpenSRS account are placed on hold and a confirmation email is > sent to the domain's admin contact. The contact has 10 days to > confirm the purchase, or the funds will be released and the > service will not be enabled. > 2. Once confirmed, the domain's information is changed to that of > the Tucows WHOIS Privacy Service (see 'Record Information' below). > If I'm reading this correctly, there is a window in which registrant info is unmasked in the WHOIS data. That's less useful than one might hope, since -- especially if the user is not online to confirm the privacy request -- the data can be harvested by spammers or harrassers. It must be possible to register a domain *with* privacy protection in place. _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
