Bill and all my friends, Well Bill, you can always contact the opoc for any registrant that isn't specifically listed. As for reporting spam, use the FTC spam reporting Email address, spam@uce.gov to address your spamming problems. For phishing report you attempted recieved phishing to either or both US-CERT and antiphishing, see:http://www.us-cert.gov/nav/report_phishing.html for instructions and http://www.antiphishing.org/report_phishing.html accordingly. Any and all ligitimate businesses or individuals should be very concerned regarding their privacy regarding personal information due to stalkers, ID thieves ect... This would include protecting their personal information from even LEA's. See for example:http://www.eff.org/blog and most especially from other businesses with well known online business recognition such as Google or LEA's such as the FBI, in some instances... Bill Silverstein wrote:
In fact, registrant privacy is not good enough yet and needs strengthening. We also need to remember that all registrants are users as well... It depends on your definition of user. If it is user of ICANN services, then users are the same as registrants.
I am against Whois privacy, except in individual/non-commercial cases. I fight spam and I use whois as an attempt to track down spammers. No legitimate business operates anonymously. In the USA, a DBA is a public record -- If you operate a business, who the business is is public.
Law enforcement tends to be slow to act (unless it is a hot political item). Try getting law enforcement to take a report on an e-bay fraud, bad check, etc. In some places you practically have to put a gun to their head to take a report. If you look at the recent criminal prosecutions for spamming, you have Ralksy/Bradley who had been civilly sued a few times before the Feds got involved. With Robert Soloway, Microsoft and others had gotten judgments against him before the feds got involved.
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