[At-Large] Issue Report on Thick Whois

Antony Van Couvering avc at avc.vc
Wed Nov 23 16:11:32 UTC 2011


Sorry you feel that way. I've been saying the same thing since 1998.  As FUD it has been remarkably ineffective. 

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On Nov 23, 2011, at 2:47, Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz at iks-jena.de> wrote:

> * Antony Van Couvering wrote:
>> Thin Whois is an historical abomination - it was slipped through by Network Solutions as a way to keep all the customer data for themselves when their monopoly was broken up. 
>> 
>> It is bad for legitimate searchers, because registrars may or may not be findable or helpful
>> 
>> It is bad for privacy, because registrars are less secure -- plus I'm sure some of them have been mining their own whois data and either using it themselves or spamming.  
>> 
>> It's very bad for registrants (assuming anyone in ALAC cares) because in a business failure, your records of what you own, in what name, etc., are all gone. 
>> 
>> Whatever your policy position, a thick Whois is better because then policy can be applied to it.  
> 
> I'd like to comment this claims with the only approbriate word: FUD.
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