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Old 10-30-2002, 06:28 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Fake Whois Info

I have been reading that you can loose your Domain if it
has false Whois info.

Have they recently passed something that has made it tougher than before to have false info?

Has anyone here lost a name due to this?
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Old 10-30-2002, 06:49 PM   #2 (permalink)
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To properly report

false Whois information use the following form:

http://www.internic.net/cgi/rpt_whois/rpt.cgi
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Old 10-30-2002, 06:57 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Despite many people claiming otherwise - the rule of thumb seems to be: as long as you have a good email address you are ok. It's not something that is apparently high on anybody's priority list. It's also impossible to enforce because there are too many ways around it currently.

I'm not saying this is right or wrong - just that it's the reality of the situation.
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This "report" form at internic is a joke. I reported a few domains in September - and nothing changed yet.
I reported those netsol-regged domains for which deletion cycle started but never ended:
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com
Updated Date: 25-jun-2002

>>> Last update of whois database: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 17:00:29 EST <<<

The Registry database contains ONLY .COM, .NET, .ORG, .EDU domains and
Registrars.

Domain not found locally, but Registry points back to local DB.
Local WHOIS DB must be out of date.
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(whois of today and the same for months; I know this domain expired and had to be deleted)
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Were

these domains that contained fraudulent information, or just names that you desired having? Big difference...
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I reported bad whois info... And yes, some of them I want to have I also reported non-expired spammers domain casinosupportcenter.com which has incomplete/inaccurate whois data- and nothing changed :(
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Sometimes it depends on who is doing the complaining. For example, with election day approaching, I have heard from an operator of a politically oriented website that they were getting repeated registrar inquiries. I followed up with the registrar, and they told me they were receiving "tremendous pressure" from a large law firm associated with a political candidate of whom the site was critical, to have the domain registration deleted on account of a stale telephone number in the whois data.

Registrars have the single objective of maximizing revenue and decreasing cost. Responding to whois complaints is pure cost for them unless they believe that they would be avoiding other costs by following up on them.
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WHY in the first place?

WHY in the first place would someone register a domain with false info? Unless you are into something ILLEGAL, at least get a mailbox down the road at your local post office or Mail Boxes Etc. You may even give your pager or voicemail instead of a home/office phone in order to avoid some unexpected hassle. It's that simple! And if you can't afford even that, then ...
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the majority of false whois info is not deliberate inaccuracy, it is obsolete data. Such as when people who lived in chicago, move to tennessee without changing their whois info.
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Also have to add that I've run a few adult sites before and have got emails from total wack jobs that freaked me right out. No way am I going to have my personal information in the whois for some nut with a point to prove.

Thats a habbit thats stuck now that I do more mainstream stuff. My email address is always correct if someone needs to contact me about a domain I own, but there is no way I'll accept any mail / visits / phone calls.
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