RE: [registrars] RE: Registrar Approval of Variable Accreditation Fee for 2003-2004

["Donny Simonton" <donny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rick,
I would say about 50% want to lie and 25% do lie.  We get calls on a daily
basis about people being tired of getting spam, phone calls, and snail mail
spam so they want to just put in bogus information so they stop receiving
it.  And to be honest with you I understand.  Get rid of the spam,
telemarketers, and the snail mail marketers and people will provide correct
information.

Now I won't go into privacy issues, which would cut the number of bogus
whois information considerably.

But hey, this is my opinion.

Donny



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-
> registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rick Wesson
> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 9:10 AM
> To: Tim Ruiz
> Cc: Registrars List
> Subject: RE: [registrars] RE: Registrar Approval of Variable Accreditation
> Fee for 2003-2004
> 
> 
> 
> > Rick, for the me the point is that getting more precise data does not
> > in any way mean that it is more accurate. The congress, and others,
> > seem to be under the impression that one leads to the other. It
> > doesn't. All this will lead to is a better quality of bad data. What
> > is the problem that they are really trying to solve?
> 
> Tim, you confuse me.
> 
> if you assume everyone lies in their registration, the data will be no
> more accurate -- folks will just learn to be more efficient in their lie.
> However most registrants dont lie, if just a few percent of registrants
> lie then improving the tests on registrant data quality should improve the
> overall accuracy of registrant data.
> 
> It all depends on the amount of registrants that desire a fraudulent
> registration. If I follow your logic it sounds like everyone wants to lie
> about their registrant data. which means more precise data will not lead
> to more accurate data -- and we have a much larger problem.
> 
> The question to answer what percentage of registrants lie in a domain
> registration?
> 
> -rick
> 
> 
> Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property
> 2:00 p.m. in 2141 Rayburn House Office Building
> 
> Oversight Hearing on: "Internet Domain Name Fraud - - the U.S.
> Government's Role in Ensuring Public Access to Accurate Whois Data"
> 
> see http://boss.streamos.com/real-live/hjudiciary/4749/100_hjudiciary-
> live_030428.smi
>