FTC calls for Openness and Accessibility in WHOIS databases
Something good to hear: FTC Calls for Openness, Accessibility in Whois Database System.
In a nutshell, the FTC is concerned by the increasing trend of the registrars to treat their whois data as private property. Are they trying to somehow maximize their profits? Keep spammers from harvesting their databases? Who knows. But the problem is that they're making it harder for law enforcement and the rest of us to track down spammers when they close off the databases.
In a nutshell, the FTC is concerned by the increasing trend of the registrars to treat their whois data as private property. Are they trying to somehow maximize their profits? Keep spammers from harvesting their databases? Who knows. But the problem is that they're making it harder for law enforcement and the rest of us to track down spammers when they close off the databases.
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This is a big deal; knowing there is so much fraud perpetrated online from phishing, spam scams, escrow frauds. There was some article online I read about this WHOIS data being harder to obtain in years to come if certain net guidelines are to be passed.
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