Hello Ross,
Friday, December 29, 2000, 10:35:36 AM, Ross Wm. Rader wrote:
> < Question:
> <
> < Will they find out that information before or after it becomes
> < committed to
> < the public sources of information (e.g., the whois db).
> Whois is updated by Tucows almost instantaneously, zone files are published
> once every 24 hrs.
And would SnapNames get the information in Synch from OpenSRS?
> <
> < How about how many domain names Derek's Customer Inc. has purchased?
> Easier to determine under the current system than one might think.
Still requires quite a bit of work and investment of time and
resources.
> But it still comes down to a temporal distinction. All they purport to have
> done is made this discovery process more efficient. I make no claims as to
> the worth of this effort, just simply that they have improved on the
> existing discovery mechanisms.
The question then comes down to if it is in the Registrar's and the
Registrant's best interests to have this process made more efficient.
Many, including myself, see very powerful privacy reasons why this
process should NOT be made more efficient, and a great benefit in
being with a registrar who will not aid and abet their efforts.
> That "change" is in practice today. ICANN mandates that registrars provide a
> copy of the entire whois database to whomever asks. Period.
Yes, but that is a nice bar to the practice. A semi-substantial one.
Why is it in the registrar's or the registrant's interests to have
that bar lowered?
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Best regards,
William mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
