On 4-Oct-2006, at 19:04, Steve Sobol wrote:
ICANN *does* have a requirement for accurate information in WHOIS and
while I don't know how strongly the requirement is enforced, they
*can*
pull your domain registration if you don't have accurate information.
While I'm not familiar with the precise enforcement mechanisms or
policy, I do know of one ISP who had the delegation for their (.com)
domain name unexpectedly pulled by the registry in response to a
complaint about inaccurate whois information directed at ICANN.
It was painful for the ISP, especially since it happened during the
time that Verisign's sitefinder was live, which caused e-mail to ISP
customers to be hard bounced from Verisign and people looking for
their web page to be presented with a "this domain is not registered"
page instead of a browser error.
It's well worth avoiding, even without the additional sitefinder
complications :-)
Joe
