'Patently False' Domain Registrations Abound

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Another big surprise (not).

Via The Merc.

[snip]

More than 5 percent of Internet address names issued in the United States are registered using "patently false" contact 
information, making it difficult or impossible to contact the sites' owners, according to report submitted to Congress.

Another 3.7 percent of domain names ending in ".com," ".net" and ".org" contain missing information in required contact 
fields, the Government Accountability Office said in a report submitted to the House Subcommittee on Courts, the 
Internet and Intellectual Property.

In all, 3.9 million names, or about 8.7 percent, contain contact details that "appeared obviously and intentionally 
false'' or are incomplete, the report said.

[snip]

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/13352183.htm

- ferg

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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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