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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?"
This isn't funny or flamebait but when I do 'whois google.com' I get the following
.com and .net domains can now be registered
C OM I NE .THAN.SECZY.COM
[vijay@vijay vijay]$ whois google.com
[whois.crsnic.net]
Whois Server Version 1.3
Domain names in the
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.
GOOGLE.COM.SUCKS.FIND.CRACKZ.WITH.SEARCH.GULLI.
GOOGLE.COM.HAS.LESS.FREE.PORN.IN.ITS.SEARCH.ENG
GOOGLE.COM
To single out one record, look it up with "xxx", where xxx is one of the
of the records displayed above. If the records are the same, look them up
with "=xxx" to receive a full display for each record.
I am not sure if my system's connecting to the wrong server or the server itself is screwed up.
But 'whois tachyontech.net' works fine so I guess there's a problem with the server.
Am sure that if results turn up like this no one needs to worry about privacy.
But It would be more than useful for everyone if ICANN or whatever organisation first makes sure that the information that is being provided by different whois servers is atleast proper.