[164672] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN WHOIS for leads
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Fri Jul 26 17:06:39 2013
From: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 21:05:57 +0000
In-Reply-To: <679A16A0-A57C-4194-B8E3-6EE00B3A8FF5@ianai.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jul 26, 2013, at 10:04 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net> wrote:
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> Suggestion: Put tagged addresses and, if possible, phone numbers in your =
ARIN whois and other public records. When someone emails that address or ca=
lls that number, make sure you put them on a "never buy from" list, and the=
y know it. Write them a physical (form) letter, explaining why, and make it=
public (web page, blog, whatever. If even a small percentage of people did=
this, many companies would change their practices. _Especially_ Internet c=
ompanies.
And please ARIN me on your letter... We do send fairly nasty letters on=20
occasion citing the Whois terms and conditions, this is done when it is=20
clear from complaints that parties are mining Whois or the mailing list for=
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spamming, but we need to know it is going on. (We also do have artifacts=20
in the database which sometimes lets us occasionally catch this on own, but
most reliable are reports from folks who know the email and/or phone abused
only occurs on their Whois entry.)
Thanks!
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN=
