[48910] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN requirement for "information refreshing"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Wed Jun 19 13:53:46 2002
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 13:55:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@fugawi.net>
To: <sjj@pobox.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020619132249.A382@sec.sprint.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>
> I only recall two subpoenas for _just_ domain names. The rest always had more
> info, like email headers or IP addresses.
Here's a good example of why it's a waste of LEA/LEO's time to be
looking at WHOIS data:
Below is the data for my personal domain. I am the only one who
uses it. The only one who is responsible for it. My friend, who
doubles as a registrar, "registers" it for me.
Looks perfectly accurate to me and this is how it will be
"updated", but in order to find out it's me, LEA has to
send a subpoena to get the information i.e. who are the
account holders, where are they, where do they pay their bills
from, etc. etc.
Registrant:
Where The Fugawi (FUGAWI2-DOM)
3300 Irvine Ave, #385
Newport Beach, CA 92660
US
Domain Name: FUGAWI.NET
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Barrow, Michael (MB144) michael@MLBARROW.COM
mlbarrow.com
1415A Harbor View Drive
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
US
949-885-1802 781-240-5836
Record expires on 24-Aug-2002.
Record created on 23-Aug-1997.
Database last updated on 19-Jun-2002 13:48:52 EDT.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.IJDOMAINS.COM 12.44.117.72
NS2.IJDOMAINS.COM 65.107.235.169
As far as my statement about a whois record being "junk", I mean
it's junk to LEAs. Honestly? Is this more accurate than a
dig on ns, mx, soa and a traceroute to find out what REALLY
is going on here?
-M
