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RE: no whois info ?

  • From: Hannigan, Martin
  • Date: Thu Dec 09 14:45:36 2004

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 2:33 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: no whois info ?
> 
> 
> 
> At 01:50 PM 09/12/2004, Jeff Rosowski wrote:
> >>>shell1% whois vestigial3had.com
> >>...
> >>>No match for "VESTIGIAL3HAD.COM".
> >>>What gives ?  How can there be no whois info anywhere ?
> >
> >You can also make whois information private, usually for an 
> additional fee.
> 
> I wonder what % of domains that have their whois info hidden 
> or "private" 
> are throwaway spam domains...  Some number approaching 100% I would 
> bet.  It would be nice to somehow incorporate this into a 
> SpamAssassin 
> check somehow.


Perhaps 100% of spammers hide their registration data when possible,
but I wouldn't say that 100% of hidden registrations are spammers.

An RBL option of this type of data would probably mean forced 
elimination of a benefit to the public - privacy. 


-M<