[At-Large] Issue Report on Thick Whois

[Alan Greenberg]

And now we have come full circle. The Preliminary Issue Report that 
we are discussing here (at least intermittently) was requested by the 
GNSO Council in direct response to a Recommendation in the recent 
Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy PDP.

Alan

At 25/11/2011 07:58 PM, John R. Levine wrote:

>Related note: the proximate reason to ask for thick WHOIS is to make
>registrar transfers work better.  It is currently close to impossible to
>get the contact info from some sleazy registrars required to validate a
>transfer request.
>
>So for anyone who's opposed to thick WHOIS, in fact you're supporting the
>interests of those sleazy registrars against the interests of registrants,
>including individuals, who want to switch to a better one.  If you
>counterargue that ICANN compliance should fix the problem, I agree, and
>while they're at it, they should require that registrars fix all the
>obviously bogus visible WHOIS info, too.