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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Other useful finding:<br>
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"33 percent (± 2.3 percent) appear to be registered by natural
persons", <br>
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So much for the often expressed opinion that individuals
registering domain names names are a very small minority that has
to be considered collateral victims of the open WHOIS policy. One
third is actually a large proportion. <br>
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On the methodology, I do not understand why NORC checked DNSBL
listings, which are mostly used for fighting e-mail spam. This is
even more of a paradox because they focused on reviewing web sites
and FTP servers. Who uses FTP servers these days ? Domain names
may used solely for e-mail, but they were not checked out. Given
the small sample, I wonder why they did not send out an e-mail to
the domain registrant, asking if they were an individual or a
business. They would have avoided a large number of unknowns in
their research. <br>
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Patrick<br>
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On 16/02/13 16:32, Carlton Samuels wrote:<br>
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ms,sans-serif">Grist for the mill, from Appendix A:
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<div><font size="4"><font face="comic sans ms,sans-serif"> "For
each of the 1,600 domain names, we tried to determine if
the domain user could be considered a legal person or a
natural person. Table 2 shows that for most domain names,
we could not make such a determination because <b><i>almost
half the domains were parked domains or had no online
content at all</i></b>. <b><i>Only 11.5 percent of
the domains had content, but had an unknown apparent
domain user type.</i></b>"</font></font>
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