8 Jan
2004
8 Jan
'04
3:54 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Patrick Rigney
Sent: 08 January 2004 21:15
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: OT: Network Solutions Threatens Your Privacy
I'm a little steamed. I just received an email from Network Solutions
offering me a valuable new service: protection of my domain registration
information from spammers. For the cost of just $5, my WHOIS contact
information will be hidden so it can't be scraped by spammers and doesn't
appear in the lists and exports they routinely create from the whois
databases.
That's bollocks, or at least it is here in the UK. Here's the info from my
own domain registry:
"The UK registry, Nominet, allows you to request that your personal contact
details remain private and are not revealed on the whois server. If you wish
to keep you contact details private, please select 'private' from the drop
down list below, else select 'public'."
No fee involved and that's per user, ie me, so I don't have to tell Nominet
to keep my details private for every domain I own. Unless things are
completely different in the US that smacks of extortion.
Second, NSI claims on the "product"
information for this "service" that
"ICANN requires this personal information to be available for anybody to
view on the web." If that is the case, then how is even possible for them
to charge me to not make my personal information public.
Nope. That's kaka. It's up to the domain owner whether they're public or
not, at least over here anyway.
Am I being unreasonable about this?
Sounds like Verisign type behaviour to me......take advantage of lesser
skilled people's knowledge to get money from them for something that should
be free.
cheers
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Adrian/Witchy
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