Greg Frank wrote:
Roger,
Tucows' position is that it is just as important to make sure that the underlying information provided by a registrant is correct
and from the actual registrant before turning on the privacy option.
As important as honorling their (potentially life-savng) privacy? Fine. Then allow the option of not processing the actual registration until confirmation is received, then registering it anonymously -- warning that this might result in missing the registration window.
Registrants have up to 10 days to perform the authorization. If they are concerned about their information being displayed, they
can readily confirm the whois privacy option within minutes of receiving the authorization message.
But the way it works is that they enter the request at our site, we process it within a day or two, *then* their privacy option query happens. What if they're in the bathroom? At work? On vacation?
Additionally, Tucows has a very low threshold for mining of our public WHOIS. Our data indicates that typically, the initial WHOIS
lookups are performed by the reseller or the registrant themselves shortly after registration, and not the data miners.
That doesn't explain the spam to "Registrar, Domain" I'm drowning in. _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
