Mike Reno wrote:
WorldNIC will setup a domain without an email address using a bogus worldnic.com email address if the owner of the domain wishes to keep his email address private. This is a practice all registrars should consider. And, since WorldNIC is another face of NSI, it would seem that this practice is well within their acceptable guidelines.
Some ISPs also hide the true phone number by using a phone line at their facilities.
No. I think this is an extremely *bad* idea. I don't argue that the issue of spam needs to be dealt with. But the registration of data like email addresses and phone numbers is critical from an operational point of view. These are needed when conatct has to be made because of an operational failure. The purpose of whois data has become corrupt and corrupted over the last couple of years, but we can't lose sight of it. If you can solve the problem of accurate contact data for operational failures, fine. Until then, the data has to be accurate, and useful. Not bogus. /rlj CenterGate Research LLC