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

["Paul Stahura" <stahura@xxxxxxxx>]

All 1.8M domains are probably not registered by 1.8M different people.
They could all be registered by the a single (or a few) bad actor(s)

Or the rest may have "falsified" their whois for privacy concerns.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gnso-dow123@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-gnso-dow123@xxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Anthony Harris
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 10:55 AM
To: Bret Fausett; gnso-dow123@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [gnso-dow123] Emailing: 2100-9588_22-5986553.htm

Bret,

If these percentages are correct, then in the case of gTLD
registrations, and if we take a number of 35 million gTLD
registrations as a ball park figure (I am probably a little off
mark), that would mean 5.14% would be equivalent to
1.799.000 registrations with 'patently false data in at least
one of the required whois fields' ?

As a percentage granted it may not be significant; as an array 
of potential law infringement and abuse perpetrators, the
number might raise some concern?

Tony Harris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bret Fausett" <bfausett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gnso-dow123@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: [gnso-dow123] Emailing: 2100-9588_22-5986553.htm


>I think it's also worth noting that according to the GAO report, only 
> 5.14% of gTLD registrations have patently false data in at least one
of 
> the required whois fields and only 3.64% of registrations have 
> incomplete data in at least one of the required whois fields. The
press 
> seems to be reporting this as "rampant" false data, but quite frankly
I 
> was stunned by how low those numbers are. I would have expected them
to 
> be significantly higher.
> 
>               Bret
> 
> 
>