Re: ICANN requirement for "information refreshing"?

[Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>]

Is funny that both ICANN and law enforcement are trying to clean up whois
information to facilitate investigative capabilities. What a crock.

On paper, and in theory, having 'clean' whois data is nice, and helpful for
tech problems, which is the reason I think why it's there in the first
place. 

As if nobody thought about having a 'front man' doing a registration, or
even that the Registrars will be able to truly implement such data-integrity
protocols, among any other ways to muck with this info.

I mean, garbage in, garbage out. Are they going to go door-to-door like
censustakers to verify this info?

The reality is it will never work, and besides - any smart criminal will
simply use another domain name, or not even USE a domain name.....a
power-user computer criminal shouldn't have problems remembering a few IP
addys. If they can't, they're stupid and deserve to be caught.

rick
infowarrior.org




> From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan () fugawi net>
> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 23:51:14 -0400 (EDT)
> To: Jake Baillie <jake () priva com>
> Cc: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb () gettcomm com>, <nanog () merit org>
> Subject: Re: ICANN requirement for "information refreshing"?
>
>
> On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Jake Baillie wrote:
>
> > At 07:09 PM 6/18/2002 -0400, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote:
> >
> > > On searching the ICANN-Verisign contract at the ICANN site, I could find
> > > no requirement for refreshing. I'm concerned this may be a covert
> > > marketing activity, since the web page for "refreshing" very easily could
> > > have led me into buying services from Verisign. This seems to be of
> > > operational interest to service providers hosting domains, if
> > > Verisign/Netsol can confuse people into shifting their service to them.
> >
> > (from ICANN Registrar Accreditation Agreement -
> > http://www.icann.org/registrars/ra-agreement-17may01.htm):
> >
> > 3.4.1 During the Term of this Agreement, Registrar shall maintain its own
> > electronic database, as updated from time to time, containing data for each
> > active Registered Name sponsored by it within each TLD for which it is
> > accredited. The data for each such registration shall include the elements
> > listed in Subsections 3.3.1.1 through 3.3.1.8; the name and (where
> > available) postal address, e-mail address, voice telephone number, and fax
> > number of the billing contact; and any other Registry Data that Registrar
> > has submitted to the Registry Operator or placed in the Registry Database
> > under Subsection 3.2.
> >
> > I guess you could consider that email as an attempt to "maintain" their
> > database. That being said, the email I received contains a link which sends
> > me to their homepage. Not very helpful if you're clueless about such matters.
>
> I too got one. Define "refresh". as far as I'm read it, if my
> data is accurate, I'm all set.
>
> Bah. Spammers.