RE: RBL quandry - opinions hereby solicited

[Mike Reno <mreno () earthlink net>]

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.  And others use Contact records that point to the ISP for
Admin, Billing and Technical contacts on domains they register.  These are
very large registrars and they do get their domains registered without any
hassles from NSI.

Since snail mail is costly and not very cost effective, hiding the true
data from NSI will reduce the SPAM the domain owner receives as most
companies won't go the extra expense.

WorldNIC is utilizing the database for marketing purposes which is
something the old guard at NSI was totally against any ISP doing and in
fact insisted on an agreement to those terms before giving us ftp passwords
to pull down the .zone files.  
        
-=Mike Reno=-
Hostmaster, EarthLink Network

At 01:00 PM 11/16/98 -0500, you wrote:
> No.  That's not really a valid comparison.  You have a choice about which
> credit card company you deal with.  Network Solutions is spamming you based
> on information you are required to provide to them.  If you refuse to
> provide them with the info, you get no domain registration.  Cute, eh?
>
> C
>
> Chris Mauritz
> Director, Systems Administration
> Rare Medium, Inc.
> chrism () raremedium com