[76412] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: no whois info ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannigan, Martin)
Thu Dec 9 14:44:44 2004
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:44:18 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 2:33 PM
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: no whois info ?
>
>
>
> At 01:50 PM 09/12/2004, Jeff Rosowski wrote:
> >>>shell1% whois vestigial3had.com
> >>...
> >>>No match for "VESTIGIAL3HAD.COM".
> >>>What gives ? How can there be no whois info anywhere ?
> >
> >You can also make whois information private, usually for an
> additional fee.
>
> I wonder what % of domains that have their whois info hidden
> or "private"
> are throwaway spam domains... Some number approaching 100% I would
> bet. It would be nice to somehow incorporate this into a
> SpamAssassin
> check somehow.
Perhaps 100% of spammers hide their registration data when possible,
but I wouldn't say that 100% of hidden registrations are spammers.
An RBL option of this type of data would probably mean forced
elimination of a benefit to the public - privacy.
-M<
