Meredith and all,
Meredith Tupper wrote:
> Jeff Williams wrote:
>
> > Are you speaking about the telnet interface
> > to Whois? If so, you don't need that,
>
> With all due respect, sir, who are you to tell me what I don't need? I will
> determine that for myself, thank you.
Are you than saying that you need private information on a DN that is not
registered to you? No offense intended in this response, or the previous one.
However what is currently provided from NSI with respect to Whois
searches should be more than adequate.
>
>
> > and it provided information that is
> > neither necessary and violates the privacy of many DN holders
>
> Again, who are you to decide what whois results are necessary to me? I'm a domain
> holder and no one ever gave a rat's ass about my privacy.
Good point here in you las sentence. They should have from the beginning
given a "Rats ass" as you put it. This was a mistake made by NSI that
is now corrected. What information in a whois results is it that you require
on a domain that is not registered to you?
> Why all this concern for
> privacy all of a sudden?
Privacy is VERY important, and is a hallmark in US law. Hence the levels
of concern are rising, and should be.
> Because it's an excuse to cover up ineptitude, that's
> why. We all know that *part* of why they yanked the creation date from the whois
> results is because entity#1 would register a domain name, receive a ticket tracking
> number, and STILL lose the domain to entity#2 who plainly registered the domain
> AFTER entity#1 had received the ticket tracking number. So what's the classic
> Internic/NSI answer to such a problem? Don't address the problem at its source--no,
> no--simply remove the entire function in order to mask the symptoms of an ailing
> system.
Agreed the system is indeed ailing and needs a complete redesign. In the
mean time it is better to err on the side of privacy.
>
>
> > in addition
> > providing a weapon by which TM lawyers can ad do use to do reverse
> > domain name hijacking...
>
> Life is rough. Let NSI see what it's like to be on the receiving end for a while.
I can understand you frustration and I sense that you seem to be VERY
frustrated. Yet as a business, NSI should do what it can to protect itself
as well as it's customers from misuse in whatever method it has at it's
disposal. I would agree that a better method should be developed, but
the current misuse of Whois data an the use of Data Mining as well as
several legal firms using the Whois information in an inappropriate
and harmful manner forced NSI into a immediate decision as well as their
obligation to meet the Amendment 11 requirements.
>
>
> Meredith
>
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>
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