[77614] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 'Whois protection service'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Foster)
Wed Jan 26 23:19:02 2005
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:18:26 +1300 (NZDT)
From: Mark Foster <blakjak@blakjak.net>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200501270403.j0R43U54013761@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:26:00 +1300, Mark Foster said:
>
> > I'm unsure how appropriate it is to post anything more specific in the
> > open forum, but i've never seen this before. Whats the deal with hiding a
> > domain name owners true identity?
>
> Happens all the time..
*snip*
>
> (They're not *all* bad, evill and black-hat - as far as I can tell, GoDaddy
> provides a similar service - but if you end up calling them because there's a
> problem, they're not at all amused - and take their ire out on the problem user)
>
> Further discussion is probably better done on spam-l@peach.ease.lsoft.com
>
Thanks to those who've responded both on and off list - it seems the rules
are different on your side of the world. I'll go the other way (as I
usually do) and chase the IPs involved (I usually pursue both out of
curiosity, but had not seen the aforementioned whois output before).
My thanks - can close this thread now before I get moderated. :)
Mark.
