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RE: Internet privacy
From: "Jeffrey Meltzer" <jeffrey () icsnet com>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:08:27 -0400
Not to start a war, but you can block your Telephone Number from being listed in the phone book, so why shouldn't you be able to block your whois info? What valid reason would you have for getting in contact with a domain owner, if they've unlisted themselves and don't want to be contacted? Netblock info, yes, because that's where the abuse comes from. Domains are forged a lot more than IP's are. As long as you can see some contact info for 1.2.3.4, who cares what the listed contact info for spammer.com is? Chances are if they know what they're doing, it's bogus info anway, so you track them through their (hopefully) friendly upstream. Any abuse/misuse/etc I've ever tracked down has been via netblock, never domain. But, maybe I'm just not thinking of something. Jeff
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of Jack Bates Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 11:08 AM To: Allen McRay Cc: Nanog Subject: Re: Internet privacy Allen McRay wrote:To learn how to assign WHOIS contact information and aboutother actions youcan take to protect your personal information today, visit www.InternetPrivacyAdvocate.org.It's rediculous to state that placing contact information for a domain name is a privacy issue. A domain is public record, as should the contact information be. Is verisign out to help spammers any way that they can? It's bad enough that the whois information is often out of date with obvious bogus information like 555-1212. -Jack
Current thread:
- Internet privacy Allen McRay (Oct 01)
- Re: Internet privacy Owen DeLong (Oct 01)
- Re: Internet privacy Martin J. Levy (Oct 01)
- Re: Internet privacy Stephen J. Wilcox (Oct 02)
- Re: Internet privacy Martin J. Levy (Oct 01)
- Re: Internet privacy Jack Bates (Oct 02)
- RE: Internet privacy Jeffrey Meltzer (Oct 02)
- Re: Internet privacy Jack Bates (Oct 02)
- RE: Internet privacy Owen DeLong (Oct 02)
- Re: Internet privacy Leo Bicknell (Oct 02)
- Re: Internet privacy Owen DeLong (Oct 02)
- RE: Internet privacy Lyndon Nerenberg (Oct 02)
- RE: Internet privacy Owen DeLong (Oct 02)
- RE: Internet privacy Lyndon Nerenberg (Oct 02)
- RE: Internet privacy Owen DeLong (Oct 02)
- RE: Internet privacy Jeffrey Meltzer (Oct 02)
- Re: Internet privacy Matt Levine (Oct 02)
- Re: Internet privacy Owen DeLong (Oct 01)
- Re: Internet privacy Richard Cox (Oct 02)