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Verisign privacy? Re: Internet privacy
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 17:21:14 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Allen McRay wrote:
Apologies if this is off-topic. No chance of it ever happening, correct? =;]
What's interesting about Verisign's proposal is they are lobbying to eliminate "free" or compulsary distribution of the WHOIS data; they are NOT lobbying to keep the data private. Eliminating public WHOIS access increases the value of Verisign's database when they sell the (now private) database to list generators. Currently, Verisign is competiting in the listmarket with other vendors which mine the same WHOIS data or get it through a compulsary bulk data agreement. Why pay Verisign when you can get the information for "free?"
Current thread:
- RE: Internet privacy, (continued)
- 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 Matt Levine (Oct 02)
- Re: Internet privacy Richard Cox (Oct 02)
- Re: Internet privacy Booth, Michael (ENG) (Oct 03)
- Re: Internet privacy Owen DeLong (Oct 03)