Re: [At-Large] WHOIS policy

On 2007-02-09 06:07:13 -0500, Neil Schwartzman wrote:

In other words, obfuscate WHOIS, it will be exploited immediately and rampantly, and we might not have a network to argue about in the ensuing days.

So, there's no decent enforcement of accuracy for WHOIS data. There's rampant trade of stolen identities and credit cards that get abused to register domain names. Also, high-level domain names are pretty optional for many spamming and phishing operations. Mind elaborating a bit more as to how further obfuscated WHOIS is going to let the sky fall, and what WHOIS has to do with the recent attacks on the root servers that you chose to use as an example? Regards, -- Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>