Re: OpenSRS Live Reseller Update [Domains] - 08/04/2004

From: Robert L Mathews (lists@tigertech.com)
Date: Fri Apr 09 2004 - 14:35:47 EDT


At 4/9/04 6:09 AM, Ross Wm. Rader wrote:

>Everyone is free to make whatever assumptions they want. Perhaps if
>you asked someone from marketing you might get some actual answers.

So marketing is now deciding how to discuss technical issues with
customers? Hmmm. That precisely confirms my assumption, actually: the
wrong tool was chosen for marketing reasons.

Anyway, I've made my opinions clear, so I'll shut up about it now.

>Knowlingly providing false information in your whois record is about
>to become a pretty serious legal offense in the U.S. and its already
>cause for revocation of the domain name per the registrant agreement.
>I would seriously advise anyone that takes their business seriously
>not to follow Robert's lead.

Yes. It was an attempt at a "joke"; I do not, obviously, actually plan to
do that, nor do I encourage or allow customers to give false information.

The "joke" does, however, represent the opinions of many end-users.
Ironically, if WHOIS were restricted to parties who had a reasonable need
to know it, instead of being public, end users would be much more likely
to provide valid contact information.

-- 
Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies      http://www.tigertech.net/

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." -- Darwin



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