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I'd like to introduce the author of this piece to some of the "domain names" used by the 50-odd spammers I heard from just today:
xxx@123.com (I got 6 or 7 messages from this one)
nike2304@yahoo.co.kr
1mrt@8qlys.com
OK, look up the first domain name and it's an ISP in Chile. Look up the second....well you can't because it is in South Korea. Look up the third and you learn that it is "available for registration."
Accurate WHOIS data does nothing to stop spam.
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The author of this story unfortunately gets part of the policy wrong. The consensus policy does not imply that non-response to the annual notice will, by itself, be reason for the cancellation of a domain name: That particular policy is about an opportunity to fix data.
On the other hand, general accuracy provisions are already part of the existing policy -- which was, in fact, part of the NCUC's earlier dilemma...
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The author of this article (as many others, unfortunately) in my opinion fails to see the difference between collecting accurate data and publishing them to the whole world. There is no doubt that accurate data are to be collected to hold domain owners accountable for what they do with their domains(*). But this does not mean that such data should mandatorily be made available to anyone in an anonymous and free way, as it happens today. This is not just plainly illegal under lots of legislations - it is highly dangerous (and I won't repeat Karl's considerations here). Authorized law enforcement agencies should get access to such data - but not any self-appointed "street justice".
And by the way, there's no need to identify the owner of a spam-advertised website if what you want to do is just to promptly shut the domain name (and thus the website) down.
(*) Some argue that there may be cases where completely anonymous domain registration is desirable, and while I see some merit in this, I think this should be carefully limited to such cases. Accountability is necessary for any kind of legislation - and the sociopolitical system where you don't have legislation (anarchy, aka the law of the jungle) is usually not one of the best ones to live in.
--vb. (Vittorio Bertola)
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It looks as if once again ICANN has failed to deal with all the serious privacy concerns surrounding the WHOIS database.
Me and I think I speak also on behalf of all European citizens, am particularly concerned with all the loss of privacy that is taking place because of the way the WHOIS is functioning. In Europe there are strong data protection laws that ICANN seems not to take into account. It is bad enough that there is a lack of options when it comes to the kind of information that will be visible in the WHOIS database. Even though for commercial sites and for intellectual property owners the WHOIS may work as a very usefull enforcement tool, at the same time however no one seems to take into account the simple Internet user, that at the end of the day is the one who supports the Internet.
I can not seem to understand why ICANN does not follow the example of Nominet UK, which has adopted an opt-out scheme for individuals. According to Nominet's new amendments individuals who own a site for purely personal purposes will have the ability not to make their personal information available on the WHOIS. While realistically it is rather difficult to meet the ideal of a personal endeavour and it is difficult for a registrar to pre-determine which sites are personal and which are not, The fact remains that some information must not be open to the public.
I just find it difficult to understand ICANN's approach and why it doesn't take into account the privacy of the simple Internet user.
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