Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-13 Thread Michael . Dillon
So my view of it is the same as current practice and laws (at least in US) which require business (including DBA) registrations in county/state registrar and requirying and making public corporate records, including address of the company and list of its officers. Interesting how many

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-13 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Interesting how many companies are parked at a lawyers office, i.e. the official address of the company is that of it's legal firm. One wonders why an abuse organization would not use this same tactic and register a legal firm as the administrative contact. How

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-13 Thread Jack Bates
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The network itself is the primary contact information for a domain. Every nameserver has an IP address whose connectivity can be tracked through the network. Same thing for mail servers and anything else with an A record. This means that operationally it is far more

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-12 Thread Janet Sullivan
william(at)elan.net wrote: It matters if we're talking about Tom, John or Susan working for some commercial company and contacting me as part of the activity of that entity, in that case I'd like to know about the domain and don't want to see its whois data hidden. I find it somewhat amusing

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-12 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Janet Sullivan wrote: william(at)elan.net wrote: It matters if we're talking about Tom, John or Susan working for some commercial company and contacting me as part of the activity of that entity, in that case I'd like to know about the domain and don't want to

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-12 Thread Alex Bligh
--On 11 December 2004 12:07 -0500 Rich Kulawiec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't want to turn this into a domain policy discussion, Ditto. I'd add one thing though: allowing anonymous registration is not necessarily the same thing as allowing all details of registration to be publicly queryable

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-12 Thread Rich Kulawiec
I'm going to try to keep this short, hence it's incomplete/choppy. Maybe we should take it to off-list mail with those interested. On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 10:06:10PM -0700, Janet Sullivan wrote: Great! So, if you are a vulnerable minority, don't use the internet. I said precisely the

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-12 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Rich, registrar_hat_current=on epp_coauthor_hat=on registry_hat_expired=on You have an opinion, but I'm unable to detect a basis for that opinion. Allocations of string-space do not give rise to control over any resource other than (conditionally) the

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-12 Thread Janet Sullivan
Rich Kulawiec wrote: And the other side of it is: I don't think an Internet with anonymous people controlling operational resources is workable. OK, how many anonymous domains (ala domainsbyproxy) have you been unable to contact? I *never* attempt to contact the owners of a domain which

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-12 Thread Steve Gibbard
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Janet Sullivan wrote: I'm confused. You never try to contact the owners of a domain which appears to be the source of abuse, but insist that domains can't be anonymous? All rhetoric aside, this appears to be a question of what it means to have a domain. Once upon a

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-12 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Janet Sullivan wrote: Rich Kulawiec wrote: 1. Anyone controlling an operational resource (such as a domain) can't be anonymous. This _in no way_ prevents anyone from doing things anonymously on the Internet: it just means that they can't control an operational

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-11 Thread Rich Kulawiec
I don't want to turn this into a domain policy discussion, but here are a few comments (in some semblance of order) which relate to the operational aspects. 1. Anyone controlling an operational resource (such as a domain) can't be anonymous. This _in no way_ prevents anyone from doing things

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-11 Thread Janet Sullivan
Rich Kulawiec wrote: 1. Anyone controlling an operational resource (such as a domain) can't be anonymous. This _in no way_ prevents anyone from doing things anonymously on the Internet: it just means that they can't control an operational resource, because that way lies madness. As long as that

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-10 Thread Peter Corlett
william(at)elan.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Read NANOG archives - Verisign now allows immediate (well, within about 10 minutes) updates of .com/.net zones (also same for .biz) while whois data is still updated once or twice a day. That means if spammer registers new domain he'll be

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-10 Thread Elmar K. Bins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Corlett) wrote: william(at)elan.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Read NANOG archives - Verisign now allows immediate (well, within about 10 minutes) updates of .com/.net zones (also same for .biz) while whois data is still updated once or twice a day. That

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-10 Thread Ken Gilmour
Captain's Log, stardate Thu, 09 Dec 2004 15:10:14 -0500, from the fingers of Daniel Senie came the words: snip  We have clients complaining about the junk email, junk faxes and  junk postal mail that results from these listings. snip I agree, Even the .ie domain registry doesn't add personal

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-10 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Elmar K. Bins wrote: william(at)elan.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Read NANOG archives - Verisign now allows immediate (well, within about 10 minutes) updates of .com/.net zones (also same for .biz) while whois data is still updated once or twice a day.

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-10 Thread Peter Corlett
Elmar K. Bins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Corlett) wrote: [...] This tempts me to hack something into Exim that does a whois on previously-unseen sender domains, and give a deferral if the whois denies existence of the domain. Is this likely to have any meaningful

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-10 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Peter Corlett wrote: There's some awful tinpot domain registrars out there where you have to wonder if their whois server is on the end of a dialup link, but fortunately I'm not attempting to access those. Connectivity from here to the CRSNIC server is good and no worse than to any other server I

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-10 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
In an earlier episode I pointed out to the list-resident VGRS person that the dynamic properties introduced for one marketing purpose would have a consequence in another problem domain, but no point revisiting that issue. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Corlett) wrote: There's some awful tinpot

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-10 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, kent crispin wrote: I disagree, I think this may be ok, but its specifically because its for .com/.net whois (not ok for general TLD). Reasons are: 1. Internic.net / CRSNIC whois has no limit set on number of queries client from particular ip can make before

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Mike Tancsa wrote: While doing a quick sample of my spam to see where spamvertized web sites were hosted and registered, I came across the domain vestigial3had.com shell1% whois vestigial3had.com ... No match for VESTIGIAL3HAD.COM. What gives ? How can their be no

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 11:17 AM 09/12/2004, william(at)elan.net wrote: Read NANOG archives - Verisign now allows immediate (well, within about 10 minutes) updates of .com/.net zones (also same for .biz) Yes, I was aware of that. while whois data is still updated once or twice a day. I (wrongly) assumed that the

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 01:50 PM 09/12/2004, Jeff Rosowski wrote: shell1% whois vestigial3had.com ... No match for VESTIGIAL3HAD.COM. What gives ? How can there be no whois info anywhere ? You can also make whois information private, usually for an additional fee. I wonder what % of domains that have their whois info

RE: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Hannigan, Martin
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 2:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: no whois info ? At 01:50 PM 09/12/2004, Jeff Rosowski wrote: shell1% whois vestigial3had.com ... No match for VESTIGIAL3HAD.COM

RE: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 02:44 PM 09/12/2004, Hannigan, Martin wrote: Perhaps 100% of spammers hide their registration data when possible, but I wouldn't say that 100% of hidden registrations are spammers. An RBL option of this type of data would probably mean forced elimination of a benefit to the public - privacy.

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Daniel Senie
At 02:33 PM 12/9/2004, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 01:50 PM 09/12/2004, Jeff Rosowski wrote: shell1% whois vestigial3had.com ... No match for VESTIGIAL3HAD.COM. What gives ? How can there be no whois info anywhere ? You can also make whois information private, usually for an additional fee. I wonder

RE: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Hannigan, Martin
-Original Message- From: Mike Tancsa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 3:00 PM To: Hannigan, Martin; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: no whois info ? At 02:44 PM 09/12/2004, Hannigan, Martin wrote: [SNIP] There has to be a balance between expectations

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:10 PM 09/12/2004, Daniel Senie wrote: The WHOIS data is there to ensure there's someone to contact. As long as the data listed can be used to reach the domain holder for legitimate purposes (technical problems, etc.), why should you care if the listed address is a Care Of address, the

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Peter John Hill
Jeff Rosowski wrote: shell1% whois vestigial3had.com ... No match for VESTIGIAL3HAD.COM. What gives ? How can their be no whois info anywhere ? How about the following... (note that just because someone is using someone as their authoritative name server doesn't mean that the other people (in

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Raymond Dijkxhoorn
Hi! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ dig ns vestigial3had.com snip ;; ANSWER SECTION: vestigial3had.com. 172800 IN NS ns1.kronuna.biz. vestigial3had.com. 172800 IN NS ns2.kronuna.biz. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ whois kronuna.biz [Querying whois.neulevel.biz] [whois.neulevel.biz]

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:49 PM 09/12/2004, Peter John Hill wrote: Jeff Rosowski wrote: shell1% whois vestigial3had.com ... No match for VESTIGIAL3HAD.COM. What gives ? How can their be no whois info anywhere ? How about the following... (note that just because someone is using someone as their authoritative name

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Peter John Hill
More fun... Mike Tancsa wrote: 1M IN MX10 www 1M IN A 200.124.75.12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ whois 200.124.75.12 inetnum: 200.124.64/19 responsible: GoldToe International Inc. address: 60 Market Square, 0, 0 address: 0 -

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Janet Sullivan
I wonder what % of domains that have their whois info hidden or private are throwaway spam domains... Some number approaching 100% I would bet. It would be nice to somehow incorporate this into a SpamAssassin check somehow. Please don't, there are legitimate reasons to have private domain

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 10:32 PM 09/12/2004, Janet Sullivan wrote: I wonder what % of domains that have their whois info hidden or private are throwaway spam domains... Some number approaching 100% I would bet. It would be nice to somehow incorporate this into a SpamAssassin check somehow. Please don't, there are