Oct. 22, 2007
3:26 p.m.
SSAC Advisory on Domain Name Front Running has just been published. URL of complete report is below. Executive summary follows
I'm kind of surprised that anyone is still surprised. I've assumed for years that unless I have conclusive evidence to the contrary, any third party WHOIS site exists primarily to mine the queries. It's not at all clear to me what ICANN could do about it, other than perhaps have an "official" gateway to the registry WHOIS sites and encourage people to do it. R's, John