RE: [gnso-dow123] Emailing: 2100-9588_22-5986553.htm

["Mansourkia, Magnolia (Maggie)" <maggie.mansourkia@xxxxxxx>]

The problem is that your answer does not take human nature and the
tenacity of criminals into consideration.  Limits on Whois access will
not reduce the number of criminals or bad actors making up false
information; it will only reduce the tools available to locate, remove
and/or prosecute them.  There are far more bad actors registering
domains than there are those falsifying information as a privacy
concern.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gnso-dow123@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-dow123@xxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of KathrynKL@xxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 8:40 AM
To: kstubbs@xxxxxxxxxxxx; gnso-dow123@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [gnso-dow123] Emailing: 2100-9588_22-5986553.htm

 

The answer seems to be right in front of us:  

-  introduce basic privacy protections and people will not be reduced to
"self-help" measures of putting inaccurate information into the Whois;

-  Introduce basic privacy protections and the level of accuracy in the
Whois will sky-rocket.  -  Introduce basic privacy protections and the
bad actors will be much easier to identify and address.

 

Kathy

        More than 8 percent of all Internet domain names are registered
with false or incomplete information, according to a U.S. government
study into the prevalence of phony Web sites.