At 4/10/04 9:57 AM, Roger B.A. Klorese wrote:
>And we contact the people responsible for domains how?
Depends why you want to contact them. I personally think that a public
e-mail address (perhaps an auto-changing, spam-proof forwarding alias
assigned by the registrar) should still be associated with each domain
name, so you could always use that.
If that doesn't work for you because you need an address or phone number:
- If you're in law enforcement, you get the contact info via subpoena or
other approved legal request, just like you get an address from a license
plate.
- If you need to contact them for technical/abuse reasons, you contact
their ISP instead, using ARIN records or the like, as Ross suggested.
This is what should be done anyway -- WHOIS has been useless for abuse
issues for years.
- If you have an intellectual property complaint and don't want to use
the subpoena method, you just send the ISP a DMCA complaint and the site
either goes away, or you find out the owner's contact info from the reply.
It seems reasonable to me that domain names should be roughly about as
private as car ownership: it's neither anonymous nor completely private
(the police or an insurance company can get information about you, for
example), but it's private enough for most people. The idea that domain
name ownership should be 100% public is, to me, about as reasonable as
suggesting that every car must have its owner's phone number and address
painted on the side.
I'm with Ross on the "turn 99% of it off" idea. That's not a bad slogan.
-- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies http://www.tigertech.net/"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." -- Darwin
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