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> >hypotheses: > o the whois and zone data are needed for administrative and operational > purposes > o slime are abusing those data for spamming etc., which denizens of this > list seem to hate almost as much as they hate nsi > o slime are watching zone/whois changes to send immediate spam to new > registrants 'use our wonderful services' > o slime are doing massive domain squatting hoping to then extort high > prices from more legitimate applicants > o ... > >if the above were true, and i believe that they are, what would the oh so >brilliant and deeply experienced in large scale production systems readers >of this list do to responsibly yet strongly inhibit such slimeful activity? > >think about it seriously. i suspect there are no easy answers. The first problem doesn't have a real solution (unless you consider a law that restricts freedom as a solution). The second problem can be fixed by requiring payment at or before domain registration. Ideally, there would be an automated method of doing this for high activity customers (WWW hosters & ISPs). -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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