ICANN Accepting Public Comments On Whois Privacy

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 30, 2004 @05:15AM from the who-are dept.

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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Well... by hookedup · 2004-06-30 05:22 · Score: 3, Informative

I use namecheap.com to buy all my domains, for an extra $4.95/year per domain, I get whois guard protection.

Do a whois on a domain of mine, and you get contact info to the registrar. Want my real info? Better have a subpoena ready..