thick vs thin is down to who stores and displays the whois data, not the amount of data being displayed
You can have as much, or as little, whois data on a .com as you would on a .org
Hypothetically, you're right. In reality, we all know that the quality of thin WHOIS ranges from about the same as thick down to nothing at all. Given ICANN's limited ability to do compliance, the chances of them getting a thousand thin WHOIS registrars to behave is far less than the chances of a somewhat smaller number of thick WHOIS registries. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly PS: Even if ICANN goes ahead with hundreds of new TLDs, it is unlikely that there will be as many as a dozen underlying registries.