[21572] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RBL quandry - opinions hereby solicited
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Mon Nov 16 19:50:35 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 18:24:38 -0500
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>
To: Mike Reno <mreno@earthlink.net>
Cc: Chris Mauritz <chrism@raremedium.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19981116111640.0118d100@corp.earthlink.net>; from Mike Reno on Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 11:16:45AM -0800
On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 11:16:45AM -0800, Mike Reno wrote:
> WorldNIC will setup a domain without an email address using a bogus
> worldnic.com email address if the owner of the domain wishes to keep his
> email address private. This is a practice all registrars should consider.
> And, since WorldNIC is another face of NSI, it would seem that this
> practice is well within their acceptable guidelines.
I'll tell you something.
If it's NetSol's policy to make bogus Worldnic.com addresses available for
domain registration, and as a result I can't complain to the WHOIS contacts
because of an incident of net-abuse, I am going to be on the phone to NetSol
very quickly, and I am going to complain loudly and repeatedly.
If the WorldNIC addresses forward somewhere, that's ok.
> WorldNIC is utilizing the database for marketing purposes which is
> something the old guard at NSI was totally against any ISP doing and in
> fact insisted on an agreement to those terms before giving us ftp passwords
> to pull down the .zone files.
Of course.
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