Hello Derek,
Has anyone submitted this SnapNames information to Slashdot's "Your
Rights Online" section? This seems like exactly the kind of story
they would (should) be interested in and it would be interesting to
see the more "public" reaction to this issue.
If SnapNames wants to monitor whois, within the parameters permitted
by ICANN and the existing registration agreements, like any other
member of the public can do, that is one thing. If the registrars,
including OpenSRS, are feeding them this information seperately, then
I too would have an issue with that.
If this infact happens, and OpenSRS does working out an arrangement
with SnapNames to do something along those lines, the registrar who
promises non-cooperation with SnapNames and can come even marginally
close to the service offering could see quite a bit of business come
their way.
OpenSRS got their business boosted significantly because no other
registrar catered to the ISP community in the fashion that OpenSRS
dedicated itself to doing.
I think OpenSRS would do its image a bigger boost to take a stand to
not co-operate with anything which could in any way be perceived as a
privacy violation.
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Best regards,
William mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
