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?"

Comments

Ok, I admit I didn't read the article,

[HotNeedleOfInquiry]

but one thing that seems important to me is that fraudulant contact information be handled differently than inaccurate information. No sense blackholing honest mistakes and no sense letting spammers and criminals run free

Re:SOME point of contact is useful IMHO

[xmas2003]

Just to followup on my own post, part 1 (with detailed log data and whois records) is now posted where I talk about how Graeme stole my web site and tried to profit from it.

Double edged sword here

[dacarr]

On one hand, it would help kill domains run by spammers, assuming they haven't gone to get a post office box On the other hand, it would hinder somebody if they change their address - and forget to do so on their whois record. On the third hand...well, as irrelevant as this sounds, you now have to get a DBA or a business license in order to put a business name on a post office box with the USPS, as I recently found out. This is as of 01Jan2004. So it's entirely probable that they won't just get a PO Box.