Hideawhois
Whois data is supposed to be the glue that holds the web together. You’re supposed to be able to figure out who owns a website by checking the whois.
Here’s a good site for that: domaintools.
Problem is, lately spammers have turned whois into hideawhois. They use info that’s false, and the registrars let them get away with it.
Figuring out who a spammer really is, has been made almost impossible today, since the spammers know we track them. You’d have to track them back through time in order to pin something on them. Some of us have historical records that make it possible in some cases. And my wiki have enabled others to figure out who their spammers are.
But we need to do something about hideawhois!
Any ideas?
August 6th, 2006 at 11:00 am
Tracing the owners behind the fake whois will be a problem, but at least it’s possible to dispute a domain where the whois data is clearly false.
Go to http://wdprs.internic.net/ and tell ICANN why you think that the registry data for a given domain is ‘probably incorrect’.
August 7th, 2006 at 6:42 am
If past form is anything to go by, I’m beginning to think putting out a mafia contract on that idiot “Vitali Ossipov” who replies when you send a complain to Estdomains.com by encourage a domain/webhosts to get their fingers out over these fake whois details (Especially if they suceeded)….. that, or have the Internet powers that be fine these companies a vast wad of cash each time a poor long suffering webmaster informs them of sites with dodgy details, and use the money to pay them a “bounty hunting fee” (I wish they would….. way things are going I’d probably be able to afford a Ferrari by the end of the week if things get much worse)…. perhaps by something like box on the ICANN website or somewhere…. just type the domain in a box and hit a SUBMIT button to flag it, then the Internet Big Cheeses give the domain company responsible 3days to get rid of it, or have their website mysteriously vanish from cyberspace.