Hi, I notice a few registrants are creating hundreds, if not thousands of vanity nameserver hosts, presumably to get traffic from folks who do a simple WHOIS on a domain name from a command prompt.
e.g. open a new shell if you're a Mac user and type: whois anything.com and you'll see: ANYTHING.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM ANYTHING.COM It's exploiting the pattern matching performed by default at Internic. It's a minor annoyance encountering these everyday, but perhaps registrars should start enforcing some limits before it becomes an even bigger problem? If not, it's the domain tasting saga all over again, and before you know it everyone will start creating tends of thousands of these records per domain multiplied by tens of thousands of domain names. Anything free tends to get abused, so perhaps it's time to start charging for these extra vanity hosts that clog up the WHOIS database, to have an economic solution? Sincerely, George Kirikos http://www.kirikos.com/ _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
