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RE: RBL quandry - opinions hereby solicited

  • From: Dean Robb
  • Date: Mon Nov 16 22:32:48 1998

At 11:16 11/16/98 -0800, you wrote:
>WorldNIC will setup a domain without an email address using a bogus
>worldnic.com email address if the owner of the domain wishes to keep his
>email address private.  This is a practice all registrars should consider.
>And, since WorldNIC is another face of NSI, it would seem that this
>practice is well within their acceptable guidelines.

Too bad that it's also a violation of the Domain Registration Agreement v4.0:

K.      Warranty. Registrant warrants by submitting this Registration
Agreement that, to the best of Registrant's knowledge and belief, the
information submitted herein is true and correct, and that any future
changes to this information will be provided to NSI in a timely manner
according to the domain name modification procedures in place at that
time. Breach of this warranty will constitute a material breach. 

L.      Revocation. Registrant agrees that NSI may delete a
Registrant's domain name if this Registration Agreement, or subsequent
modification(s) thereto, contains false or misleading information, or
conceals or omits any information NSI would likely consider material
to its decision to approve this Registration Agreement. 

>WorldNIC is utilizing the database for marketing purposes which is
>something the old guard at NSI was totally against any ISP doing and in
>fact insisted on an agreement to those terms before giving us ftp passwords
>to pull down the .zone files.  

Of course.  NSI expects you to uphold YOUR end of the deal, but will not
uphold THEIR end of the deal.  Go read their SEC filings and you'll see
their long term plan all spelled out.  In that plan, they specifically plan
to use their database of registration information for marketing and
delivery purposes.



Spammers should be investigated by Ken Starr!

Dean Robb
PC-EASY computer services
(757) 495-EASY [3279]