[164644] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN WHOIS for leads
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Fri Jul 26 10:49:47 2013
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <5FE1FB6D43B8A647BBC821840C1AEA8B018792@ocsbs.ocosa.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 10:46:30 -0400
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Jul 25, 2013, at 19:29 , "Otis L. Surratt, Jr." <otis@ocosa.com> =
wrote:
> From: Warren Bailey [mailto:wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com]=20
>> Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of maintaining the whois?
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> Yep!
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>> We registered a few domains and get the same thing, I think it's
> something that people are going to have to live with. :/
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> I agree. We just politely tell them we are not interested and move on
> about our day. Some cold callers we have taken up on offers. It just
> depends who calls and whether or not we are looking for new service.
> WHOIS Privacy is nice for the domains and we use for some of our =
domains
> but not all. We just hate when customers get those scam notices and =
call
> us or open tickets about it.
The fact you take some cold callers "up on offers" means they will =
continue to call.
Please do not reward people who scrape whois or the NANOG-l archive. If =
it is not profitable to call people, they will stop.
Put another way: You are making life worse for all of us.
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TTFN,
patrick
