On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 02:01, robin wrote:
>
> > [1] The relevant portion of the agreement is:
> > You agree that for each domain name registered by you the following
> > information will be made publicly available in the Whois directory as
> > determined by ICANN Policy and may be sold in bulk as set forth in the ICANN
> > agreement:
>
> You will get "submit your Web site to search engine" spam and possibly
> some "slam spam" from Verisign and possibly others toward the end of
> your domain name registration period urging you to switch registrars.
>
> But you will get this whether or not anyone bulk-sells your registration
> information, because that info is publically available and there are
> plenty of crawlers looking at WHOIS data even though ICANN and all
> registrars have policies in place that prohibit this.
And Network Solutions/Verisign have specifically tried to stop this kind
of behaviour, primarily because they want to have sole access to sell
that information themselves. When a bunch of other slimeballs are
harvesting it from your database and selling it to slimeball marketers,
it makes it less valuable to you when you try to sell it to slimeball
marketers.
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