[75040] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Big List of network owners?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Bligh)
Thu Oct 28 16:06:26 2004
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:05:55 +0100
From: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Reply-To: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
To: "Gary E. Miller" <gem@rellim.com>, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0410281131580.4522@catbert.rellim.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
--On 28 October 2004 11:33 -0700 "Gary E. Miller" <gem@rellim.com> wrote:
>> in general, we try not to make life that easy for spammers and scammers
>
> Too late. That horse ran out the barn when Verisgn sold their whois data.
>
> At this point keeping the data hard to get just makes it harder on
> abuse admins.
Last time I looked, VRSN did not have whois data on netblock owners.
Alex
