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Many Domains Registered With False Data
bakotaco writes "According to research carried out by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) many domain owners are hiding their true identity. The findings could mean that many websites are fronts for spammers, phishing gangs and other net criminals. The report also found that measures to improve information about domain owners were not proving effective." From the article: "The GAO took 300 random domain names from each of the .com, .org and .net registries and looked up the centrally held information about their owners. Any user can look up this data via one of the many whois sites on the net. The report found that owner data for 5.14% of the domains it looked at was clearly fake as it used phone numbers such as (999) 999-9999; listed nonsense addresses such as 'asdasdasd' or used invalid zip codes such as 'XXXXX'. In a further 3.65% of domain owner records data was missing or incomplete in one or more fields."
Including the spammer who was trying to forge email from my domain a few years ago. Registered his domain with a non-existent yahoomail account, amongst other false data. Backed off when I lit up the yahoo account and seized control of his domain.
It has been found that a/s/l data is not always truthful.
Maybe some people just want to be Anonymous Cowards.
I happen to be at the home of (999)999-9999 on asdasdasd street in XXXXX area code and I get so much junk mail/telemarketing calls you would not believe it.
Personally I would rather let the terrorists (cyber or otherwise) win than give up my privacy. Domain owners are justified in wanting anonymity.
I'm still waiting for my extradition notices.
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Rent the office where they used to be.
That'd be tough if they were in the World Trade Center.
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... a new study finds that 99% of anonymous FTP users give out 'foo@bar.org' as their email address.
But then you're paying for a PO box rather than an anonymizing service. Why not just point the address to your unsuspecting neighbor for free?
You waited 30 seconds to post that?
You are all a bunch of idots.
"I have a number of domain names registered. I have received a total of 3 pieces of junk mail in the 5 years I've held the domains"
Perhaps you aren't as important as you think you are
I've gotten tons of junkmail. From registrar of america alone I probably get 1 piece of mail per domain per month trying to con me into switching.
I did find a solution I used temporarily that put a stop to all the junkmail.
In your Address Line 2 use: "THIS MAIL PROBABLY CONTAINS ANTHRAX"
I stopped doing that after a while because I wasn't sure if that was legal but it was effective either way.
I heard a rumor that someone is inventing a data processing machine that will analyze information. I think they are nicknaming it 'computer'.
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What I can't figure out is how they looked at 900 domains total and found that 46.26 of them had bad information.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
If they aren't on the east coast how do you explain the navy episode where a boat sailed from Springfield harbor to NYC in a very short time?