----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Waters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 9:56 AM Subject: Re: [domains-gen] whois data and the Yukon Territory, Zimbabwe
> On Thursday 26 Oct 2006 09:28, Gordon Hudson wrote: >> >> I can explain this. >> >> When you set up an account with Godaddy they force you to set a US state >> or >> Canadian territory even if you are not in the US or Canada. >> Anyone in the UK will scroll looking for "UK" and the closest is probably >> Yukon Territory. > > This corruption is happening to whois data on records transfered in, for > the > technical contact. > > For the first example I noticed, I'm pretty sure no human went near the > data, > and if they did, they did it from Rhode Island, and so could have a > reasonable stab at entering a state, even if it isn't a very big one. > > It is just a bug. Some field is not being cleared, or some daft default > exists > for a database field if it isn't present. It sounds like they had to put in a field default because their system requires a field, rather than validating the input and forcing the customer to put something in. However, I bet they have bad data in new domains whois entries because of the forced state issue. Regards Gordon Hudson Hostroute.com Ltd www.hostroute.net _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
