"Stuffed with rubbish" could only come from one of The Register's headline writers. Looking at the same data set, you also could come up with these headlines: "Only 13.3% of mailing addresses in whois are 'undeliverable'" (p. 8) or, "Domains with privacy services have highest level of whois accuracy" (p. 16). My only point is that the data is more finely grained than what the headline suggests and anyone who is interested in whois should read the underlying report. http://www.icann.org/en/compliance/reports/whois-accuracy-study-17jan10-en.p... -- Bret