How about puting 'fat' information behind a 'thin' wall? For example, to prevent public viewing of a registrant's personal information, why not require an email registration or some other light form of identification? It would deter spammers and other frauds, while insuring a certain level of public viewing (also to deter fraud). To the argument that the vast majority of Internet users do not use WHOIS, this might be true now but not in the future. Furthermore, this argument was also used by people who opposed the paper version of the phone book, and a survey shoed that about 11% of households rely on the phone book to get information. The consensus was that people who do not have access to the Internet need it, therefore it qualifies as a public service which has to be kept for the public good. Scott Hollenbeck's RDAP project requires exactly that: identification through email (right, Scott?). This is simple enough and everybody could live with this solution, I think. Nathalie On Monday, February 13, 2017 8:42 AM, Michele Neylon - Blacknight <michele@blacknight.com> wrote: I agree and I know from how I’ve used various email addresses that they are actively being harvested and spammed. Also it’s one of the biggest sources of complaints we get from our clients (registrants) It’s definitely not an “edge case”. Regards Michele -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains https://www.blacknight.com/ http://blacknight.blog/ Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 Social: http://mneylon.social Some thoughts: http://ceo.hosting/ ------------------------------- Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd, Unit 12A,Barrowside Business Park,Sleaty Road,Graiguecullen,Carlow,R93 X265,Ireland Company No.: 370845 _______________________________________________ gnso-rds-pdp-wg mailing list gnso-rds-pdp-wg@icann.org https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/gnso-rds-pdp-wg