Re: [ga] Fw: [DNS] international domain news

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

Hello Alternate,

Tuesday, June 12, 2001, 9:44:51 PM, Alternate Chair wrote:

> Reposted from the Australian DNS mailing list.
> From: David Goldstein <DGoldstein@comslaw.org.au>
> To: DNS mailing list <dns@auda.org.au>
> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 10:30:26 +1000
> Subject: [DNS] international domain news


> ICANN WILL INVESTIGATE WHOIS PRIVACY CONCERNS
> ICANN has launched a study to gauge privacy concerns raised by the
> abundance of personal information contained in the Whois database.
> Privacy groups have criticized VeriSign for selling information about
> its Network Solutions registrants, arguing that many of them are
> individuals who never agreed to have their information sold as a
> commodity when they signed up for a domain name.

Which is, of course, entirely untrue.

Not reading the registration agreement before agreeing to it is not
grounds for claiming you didn't agree.

-- 
Best regards,
William X Walsh
mailto:william@userfriendly.com
Owner, Userfriendly.com
Userfriendly.com Domains
The most advanced domain lookup tool on the net


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