On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 07:48 PM, Robert L Mathews wrote:
> If you were being mailbombed by any of our Web hosting customers, for
> example, you'd almost certainly get a much quicker resolution if you
> contacted us by sending your complaint to
> "postmaster@[mail_server_name]", or looking up the ARIN netblock owner
> to
> get our address.
Errr, I'm being mailbombed in the given example. My e-mail and network
connectivity to send postmaster an e-mail is shot. ;-)
> Since the WHOIS contact is the domain's legal owner, it is
> inappropriate
> for domain resellers to do this without some sort of (probably
> expensive)
> escrow service. If a reseller goes out of business, the domain holder
> could easily lose their domain if they've also forgotten their
> password.
Organization information is the owner
Tech/Admin/Billing contacts (where phone numbers and e-mail sit) point
at the ISP.
Not hard to do, and doesn't violate any tenets of the domain agreement.
>> It's not a privacy violation if you have no expectation of privacy.
>
> Of course, but have you asked your customers how many of them have an
> expectation of privacy? I think you'll find it's almost all of them,
> unless you have a very technical userbase.
The domain agreement says your information will be public. Thus,
LEGALLY, there is no "expectation of privacy".
D
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