On Jul 26, 2013, at 4:34 PM, Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com> wrote:
If someone studies that and finds there is a correlation to spam
Hi, John Curran wrote: based
on WHOIS listing alone, then perhaps....
No study has been conducted, but we do receive a small number of complaints each year about email contact information being solicited in cases were the email address is exclusively used on IP address blocks and nowhere else. (Often, the culprits are network equipment vendors or technical recruiters)
SSAC conducted a study on the subject of gTLD whois and spam: http://www.icann.org/en/groups/ssac/documents/sac-023-en.htm As the gTLD and ARIN systems are different the outcomes could also be different but it might be useful as a comparison, if nothing else. Regards, Leo