RE: ARIN WHOIS for leads

[Leo Vegoda <leo.vegoda () icann org>]

Hi,

John Curran wrote:
> On Jul 26, 2013, at 4:34 PM, Jimmy Hess <mysidia () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > If someone studies that and finds there is a correlation to spam
based
> > on WHOIS listing alone,
> > then perhaps....
>
> No study has been conducted, but we do receive a small number of
complaints 
> each year about email contact information being solicited in cases
were the 
> email address is exclusively used on IP address blocks and nowhere
else. 
> (Often, the culprits are network equipment vendors or technical
recruiters)

SSAC conducted a study on the subject of gTLD whois and spam:

http://www.icann.org/en/groups/ssac/documents/sac-023-en.htm

As the gTLD and ARIN systems are different the outcomes could also be
different but it might be useful as a comparison, if nothing else.

Regards,

Leo

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