Re: WHOIS accuracy, and name deletions

[Derek J. Balling]

On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 07:48  PM, Robert L Mathews wrote:

If you were being mailbombed by any of our Web hosting customers, for
example, you'd almost certainly get a much quicker resolution if you
contacted us by sending your complaint to
"postmaster@[mail_server_name]", or looking up the ARIN netblock owner to
get our address.

Errr, I'm being mailbombed in the given example. My e-mail and network connectivity to send postmaster an e-mail is shot. ;-)

Since the WHOIS contact is the domain's legal owner, it is inappropriate
for domain resellers to do this without some sort of (probably expensive)
escrow service. If a reseller goes out of business, the domain holder
could easily lose their domain if they've also forgotten their password.

Organization information is the owner
Tech/Admin/Billing contacts (where phone numbers and e-mail sit) point at the ISP.

Not hard to do, and doesn't violate any tenets of the domain agreement.

It's not a privacy violation if you have no expectation of privacy.

Of course, but have you asked your customers how many of them have an
expectation of privacy? I think you'll find it's almost all of them,
unless you have a very technical userbase.

The domain agreement says your information will be public. Thus, LEGALLY, there is no "expectation of privacy".

D