[anti-abuse-wg] Whois database accuracy

On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 Chimel Chimel <chimel31 at live.fr> wrote:

> Thanks for summarizing the situation, Richard, but that's really
> frustrating nonetheless.  If the registrars can't enforce penalties
> because the whois information is broken or the ISP does not answer,
> it is basically useless to contact their abuse email, even for
> documentation purpose.

As I explained, the party that can enforce penalities is the upstream.

> For instance, it is a real shame that all these blacklist databases
> have been created privately by people fed up with abuse. This should
> be funded and controlled by the registrars IMHO.

If they were controlled by Registrars the situation would be far worse.

> BTW, if btuser.net means you work for British Telecoms, congrats,

No, in a sense it means I am a USER of BT's services.

BTUSER.NET is a "neutral" domain which I use in order to be able to
speak here without using my normal work account.

> And you should renew the fee for that btuser.net domain, it goes to
> a godaddy.com spam page telling this domain is for sale at $1.99. ;-)

To keep things neutral, that domain has just a GoDaddy parking page.
You may have misread the advertisement, it says that GoDaddy has (other)
domains at $1.99: the btuser.net domain is not to my knowledge for sale.

Regards,

-- 
Richard
Co-Chair, RIPE AA-WG