[ga] GAO Study: Five Percent of Domain Names Registered with Phony Contact Data

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All former DNSO GA members or other interested stakeholders/users,

To me and many of our members this clearly shows that ICANN's
performance in policing it's own Registries and registrars is not
as effective as it should be.  It also shows that plainly false
registration information is at a very low percentage and a need for
correcting this problem as a high priority is not really justified, 
nor is allowing access to ALL registrant personal and private 
information rationally justified.

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FYI,

(7 December 2005)
According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), about five
percent of domain names, or roughly 2.3 million web sites, are
registered with false contact data.  The contact information provided
to registrars is publicly available through the Whois service on the
Internet.  The study was conducted to determine the amount of false 
data in registrations, to see how much of the phony data would be
corrected within one month of being reported to ICANN and the kinds 
of businesses associated with the patently false registration data.

See:
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=174904958

 http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06165.pdf


Regards,
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Jeffrey A. Williams
Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 134k members/stakeholders strong!)

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