-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 2:33 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: no whois info ?

At 01:50 PM 09/12/2004, Jeff Rosowski wrote:

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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 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.

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. -M<