While I dislike GoDaddy very much, your comment is exactly why I feel GoDaddy and other registrars do have legitamate reasons to make their whois "selectively available".
Contracts aside, I'm guessing ICANN is in a bit of a bind on this one since both spammers *AND REGISTRARS* misuse the Whois system -- And I classify such registrars as spammers since many do send me renewal spam as well as physical mail.
I feel ICANN should address Registrar misuse of other registrars Whois first and *THEN* address contractual obligations ... But I've no idea how the handle pure spammers other than bandwidth limiting ....
Just my 2 cents.
Charles
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:04:29 -0800
"Lynn W. Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Oh, please!
I get enough spam without making it easier for the bastards to parse WHOIS.
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:42:55 +0100, Csongor Fagyal wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I say it's the 21st century, and you cannot get XML WHOIS output. That's
�I've sucessfully written a Whois Parser which I maintain to this day
�.... Thanks to all the idiot spammers who mine Whois for email
�addresses I have found the following,
�1) To make Whois Parsing very difficult Several registrars dynamically
�change,
�a) the Whois field prefixes b) the order that Whois sections appear
�(tech first one time then reg the next time)
�c) the actual formating of a fields contents (!)
�2) Several registrars will temporarily block your IP after just a very
�few Whois accesses.
�So, from experiance, I can say writing a Whois parser these days is
�*VERY* difficult!
just nonsense.
- Cs.
