On Jul 26, 2013, at 09:32 , Ryan Pavely <para...@nac.net> wrote: > What about the 2am phone calls from the guy, who did a nslookup on a website, > and then whois on the ip, who is calling to say his porn site is partially > not working and he's pissed. > > imho. The days of having public records like whois/rwhois available has > passed. The data use to be protected with a simple clue test. Only the clue > minded folks knew about the data, and were pretty responsible with it. Now > anyone can look it up. We use to use that data to be able to directly > communicate with another provider for a serious problem. It was great > knowing exactly how to get a hold of someone, and not have to forage your way > through tech support... noc.. etc.. > > Even the anti-spam army out there seem to ignore 'This is the abuse contact', > and end up spamming all whois org contacts. What's the point in that? > > Why can't we implement a method where you have to be a registered, and > paying, user/member with an AS number to be able to get IP whois 'contact' > info? Sure list my name and company. But keep my email and phone number > private. In fact show me a web log of all registered users that looked me up. > > I doubt that will ever happen. So it's time for me to update my arin contact > as this past weekend I got exactly that 2am porn call and it was quite > disturbing which website was being referenced. In all my years I knew there > was some crazy stuff out there, but this took the cake.
You can change anything you want. ARIN & ICANN are both member organizations. Propose a change, get the votes, and POOF!, things are changed. Even better, only the "clued" (and paid) get to vote. So it is exactly what you wanted. -- TTFN, patrick > On 7/25/2013 7:02 PM, Justin Vocke wrote: >> Sent this little e-mail to ARIN: >> >> I'm not sure that you guys can do anything about this, but it's worth >> looking into. I registered AS626XX a week ago, and since it's registration, >> I've been getting calls from "wholesale" carriers trying to get me to >> purchase IP transit from them. Someone is obviously using your database of >> contact information to generate sales leads. >> >> 512-377-6827 was one of the numbers trying to get more information about my >> network and how they could "help" me. >> >> My guess is someone is using your mass whois database, looking at the most >> recently issued/created AS numbers, and cold calling. >> >> Just thought I'd pass this along. >> --------- >> >> Due to the amount of calls I've received, I'm guessing its probably a good >> idea to remove my contact info from the registration and setup role's >> instead. >> >> Does this sorta thing happen frequently with new registrations or did I >> just draw the short straw? >> >> Best, >> Justin > >
