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Originally Posted by draggar  Then be evil - report them to ICANN and wait for the domain to be dropped.  |
Been there done that - it doesn't work. (And I had good reason to try and get the domain's WHOIS info changed). The domain certainly won't get dropped. The procedure is thus:
1) A complaint is lodged with ICANN about a domain. Lets say the domain is example.org, registered at Example Registrar. ICANN must reply within something like 60 days.
2) ICANN briefly review the WHOIS information. If/when they find that the WHOIS information of example.org is false (be it with a fake phone number, name, address etc) they forward the complaint to Example Registrar.
3) Example Registrar then are meant to ensure that the WHOIS information is accurate/up-to-date.
This is the flaw; Example Registrar can simply ignore this.
4) At the end of the complaint process, ICANN send an automated e-mail asking for the complainant to check if the WHOIS information is now accurate.
Another flaw; ICANN don't check again themselves.
5) In my case it wasn't, so I contacted back saying nothing had been changed. ICANN never followed it up and the WHOIS information is still false many months later.
So yeah, I think this rule should come into play - ICANN don't do anything about fake WHOIS information, but we should
