[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] Dangers of public whois

[benny at nordreg.se]

> On 14 Feb 2017, at 20:07, allison nixon <elsakoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Scott, when I say fake email for WHOIS, most people generally understand it to mean a junk email address, a "mailinator" or "yopmail" address, or a newly created email address that will never be used again. The "verification" process is straightforward and quickly learned by anyone that doesn't understand, and no part of the process forces people to use an e-mail address that they actively use. At this point in time most Internet users understand the concept of a junk email address.


I would say that the reason for people using those kind of emails are exactly why we should take away the public whois data, people are forced to use it because info are harvested and abused. 

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