Re: [ga] Registrar Advisory Concerning Whois Data Accuracy

[William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.com>]

Sunday, May 12, 2002, 12:43:34 PM, Gary Osbourne wrote:

> At 10:44 AM 12/05/02 -0700, todd glassey wrote:

>>MY concern is what they actually do to maintain that their
>>email address and other contact point data is valid. I
>>would be surprised if any of the registrars ever did
>>anything to verify squat at this point.

> With this advisory, now they have to if anyone asks.

No, they don't have to if someone simply asks.

Otherwise a registrar could virtually bankrupt his competitors by
hiring people to challenge registrations all day long.

I imagine this will only result in obviously false data being
challenged.  Other false data will probably only get challenged and
verified when there is some other factor involved, such as a pending
lawsuit or some such.

This is of course my own opinion only, but the letter clearly does not
say that a registrar must authenticate every piece of data, even if
someone challenges it.

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