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ICANN Accepting Public Comments On Whois Privacy

Decius6i5 writes "ICANN is accepting public comments on its three whois privacy and accuracy working groups until July 5th. Some of the proposals from the third working group, on improving whois accuracy, have been described as hostile to internet users. The working group proposes that if DNS Whois registration data for a domain is inaccurate, the domain should be immediately placed on hold, and cancelled if the error is not corrected within 15 days. An article on Circle ID suggests that the DNS Whois system is not the best way to share contact information for networks, and that ICANN should focus its efforts on improving IP Address Whois instead. What do you think?"

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  1. Re:Well... by CeramicNuts · · Score: 3, Funny

    I paid Netword Solutions $9 year for private registration and immediately received an increase in spam.

  2. New sites are the problem by doodlelogic · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why doesn't ICANN just take a few months off, stop any new sites coming out while it fixes the old ones.

    There seems to be more and more internet every day. At this rate I'll never finish reading it.