On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Chris Stone wrote: > On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 14:27 -0700, Thomas Leavitt wrote: > > Is this a GoDaddy specific thing? I've owned and/or managed an untold > > number domain names since 1995 and never seen a notification of this > > sort before (primary registrar to this date was Gandi.net, and before > > that Network Solutions back in the bad old days). > > While, of course, the message is worded a bit different, we get the same > thing for our domains registered under OpenSRS also every year.
ICANN *does* have a requirement for accurate information in WHOIS and while I don't know how strongly the requirement is enforced, they *can* pull your domain registration if you don't have accurate information. That's the reason for those notifications. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Apple Valley, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED It's all fun and games until someone starts a bonfire in the living room.