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Re: [Fwd: Important ICANN Notice Regarding Your Domain Name(s)]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Wed Oct 4 23:14:24 2006

Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 23:13:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
To: Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200610042334.AAA02943@sunf10.rd.bbc.co.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Brandon Butterworth wrote:

> 
> > ICANN *does* have a requirement for accurate information in WHOIS
> 
> > That's the reason for those notifications.
> 
> I've found the ones that need updating often don't reach the recipient
> because their details are incorrect.

Sure - but that's not something the registrar can control. 
 
> The rest are just spam (we have several 1000 domains...).

several *thousand*??? 

Wow.

Well, as a registrar that could be fixed by culling a list of email 
addresses from your domains' admin contact records, and just eliminating 
duplicates. I'm surprised that (apparently) some registrars don't do that.


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