Re: [anti-spam-wg@localhost] ICANN and whois data

• To: RIPE anti-spam WG < >
• From: Mally Mclane < >
• Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 10:36:47 +0100

hoi,

Playing devils advocate....


> RIPE list members may find this interesting:
> 
> http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20021130.NCWhoisTF-accuracy-and-bulkaccess.html
> It's quite long, but there's an Executive Summary.

Is there a real need to enforce accuracy in domain whois? We now have 1001
'register by proxy' services, you could put $random-address (but still
correct) in and as long as you don�t so something obvious like:

mickey mouse
123 disney road
afghanistan

Then will netsol et al really goto the trouble of checking your address is
real? 

Telephone numbers don�t have a whois that allows you to go telephone number
> name/address, is there a clear reason for domains to?



-mally
(speaking for himself, not his employer)

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