RE: Internet privacy

["Jeffrey Meltzer" <jeffrey () icsnet com>]

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 about 
> other actions you
> > can 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