Why does whois privacy make domain tasting any more undesirable? Tasting needs to be stopped in any event. People who engage in it do so with the active cooperation of the registrars they use (they may be all the same people in fact) and they're not afraid to have their names exposed.
Larry Seltzer eWEEK.com Security Center Editor http://security.eweek.com/ http://blogs.eweek.com/cheap_hack/ Contributing Editor, PC Magazine [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 1:38 PM To: Paul Ferguson Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [funsec] Editorial: ICANN's WHOIS Policy Shift Would Be CriminalN egligence On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:26:16 -0000, Paul Ferguson said: > I agree that ICANN's WHOIS policy shift would be akin to criminal > negligence. What do you think of the concept of "domain tasting with proper whois"? :) (Yes, I think domain tasting and this ICANN move regarding whois are both large crocks of bovine-based fertilizer. I *could*, in a better world, support the concept of "special circumstances" as Computerworld mentioned - except that to make it *useful*, ICANN and the bottom-feeding registrars would have to collectively grow some testicles. Otherwise, every phisher and spammer would file for "political dissident" status (hey - they disagree with the politics that passes laws that prohibit their behavior. They're dissidents :) Except for the few that will claim to be running "Homes for battered domains" :) _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
