by Monty Solomo » Sun, 17 Jun 2001 11:39:13
The organization charged with managing the worldwide Domain Name
System (DNS) has launched a study to gauge privacy concerns raised by
the plethora of personal information contained in the "Whois"
database, a publicly searchable resource used to determine the
identity of domain name registrants.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/166711.html
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1. VeriSign is selling data from 'whois' database...
They are selling physical addresses, etc. of anyone associated with domain
names, including probably every small business or home business that's ever
sold anything over the internet... your info is probably next.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/533619.asp
3. Staff Manager's Issues Report on Privacy Issues Related to Whois
5. Sale of More.com's customer list raises privacy concerns
6. Two Y2K related RealAudio songs...
7. Sprint's plan stirs privacy concerns
8. Web Directory & Files Read-Only?
9. Lieberman's Privacy 'Tap' Dance
10. Whois database access or VB programmatic access to Whois?
11. ICANN's new domains, and new.net's new domains...
12. Question Concerning 'Interconnect Charges'