Not to start a war, but you can block your Telephone Number from being listed in the phone book, so why shouldn't you be able to block your whois info? What valid reason would you have for getting in contact with a domain owner, if they've unlisted themselves and don't want to be contacted? Netblock info, yes, because that's where the abuse comes from. Domains are forged a lot more than IP's are. As long as you can see some contact info for 1.2.3.4, who cares what the listed contact info for spammer.com is? Chances are if they know what they're doing, it's bogus info anway, so you track them through their (hopefully) friendly upstream. Any abuse/misuse/etc I've ever tracked down has been via netblock, never domain. But, maybe I'm just not thinking of something. Jeff
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Jack Bates Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 11:08 AM To: Allen McRay Cc: Nanog Subject: Re: Internet privacy
Allen McRay wrote:
To learn how to assign WHOIS contact information and about
other actions you
can take to protect your personal information today, visit www.InternetPrivacyAdvocate.org.
It's rediculous to state that placing contact information for a domain name is a privacy issue. A domain is public record, as should the contact information be. Is verisign out to help spammers any way that they can? It's bad enough that the whois information is often out of date with obvious bogus information like 555-1212.
-Jack