Who’s Hiding Behind That Domain?
I’ve heard rumblings that the Internet’s governing body, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN, will meet in Los Angeles next month to discuss eliminating the Whois service.
The issue, whether proxy services are unregulated due to information that’s readily available to the public, while criminals are keeping their secret hidden.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission say they use the data from Whois to seek out Internet pirates, scam artists, and Phishing experts. Why take it away?
No matter what questions you ask or how many you ask, skilled swindlers have ready answers. That’s why sales calls or email from persons or organizations that are unknown to you should always be checked out before you actually buy or invest. Legitimate callers have nothing to hide. Phone and email swindlers are likely to know more about you than you know about them.
Use Whois while it’s still available if you plan on looking up someone you’re going to do business with!
Whois
http://www.whois.net
ICANN
http://www.icann.org
Abe Cherian
CEO Multiple Stream Media, LLC
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Ricardo Weatherly on 25 Sep 2007 at 8:19 pm #
Hi Abe,
What a wonderful post, sounds like ICANN is cutting off there nose to spit there face in a manor of speaking, but as usual they more than likely have more services to turn too.
Ricardo
MsMedia on 26 Sep 2007 at 11:23 am #
Thanks Ricardo,
Yes ICANN probably will have more services they can turn to but WHOIS is one of the oldest service if not the oldest service out there.
Abe