Re: [ga] scammers using whois privacy

["kidsearch" <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

None of which I have to do to find out who owns a piece of property or who 
got the business license for a store offline. On ecommerce websites there is 
no strong legitimate reason for hiding the information in my opinion Karl. 
The right to know who you are about to do business with isn't important to 
you?

Chris McElroy aka NameCritic
http://www.articlecontentprovider.com



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karl Auerbach" <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "kidsearch" <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Dena Whitebirch" <shore@xxxxxxxxxx>; "ga" <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: [ga] scammers using whois privacy


> 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--