Re: [ga] scammers using whois privacy

[JFC Morfin <jefsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is what some ccTLD do.
- no whois (this respects every privacy laws).
- information delivered on legal request as per national privacy law.
Operations of the network possibly require an email address - it is 
to be provided in the DNS SOA.

jfc


At 22:38 30/12/2006, Karl Auerbach wrote:

> kidsearch wrote:
>
> > ... One of the reasons cited for being able to hide whois info was to ...
>
> And one of the curative measures that seems to constantly escape the 
> minds of ICANN is that *before* any person should be allowed to 
> examine whois information that person ought to be required to 
> declare, in writing, into a permanent and public archive the following things:
>
>   - Who it is who is making the inquiry (including any necessary 
> proofs of that identity.)
>
>   - What legal right of the person making the inquiry is being 
> violated.  (If the person is acting as an agent or attorney on 
> behalf of the putative injured person, than that relationship 
> should be disclosed as well.)
>
>   - A statement of concrete facts that lead to the reasonable 
> belief that the data subject of the whois record is, in fact, the 
> person who is the direct cause of those violations.
>
> In an ideal world this statement would be reviewed by an impartial 
> person to spot what are incomplete or bogus applications to make 
> whois inquiries.  But that may be too expensive.  So in lieu, the 
> manager of the whois database should do two things:
>
>     - Whenever someone applies to look at a whois record on a 
> person, that person should be sent an e-mail notice containing the 
> statements above.
>
>     - A tabulation of all the people making inquiries, showing how 
> many inquiries they have made.  This will help identify those who 
> do data mining from whois.
>
> But as I have said, this notion of adding a balance to the inquiry 
> system seems to be something that the mind of ICANN can not absorb.
>
>                 --karl--