[registrars] DROA mining data via our easywhois site

[Larry Erlich]

DROA operates as namejuice.com
"BRANDON GRAY INTERNET SERVICES, INC. DBA NAMEJUICE.COM".

I don't know for sure but I believe they are the
same company or closely affiliated.


Larry Erlich
http://www.DomainRegistry.com

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John Kane wrote:
> They were a eNom reseller years ago but have been ICANN accredited for about two years. They were banned from making transfers (which was the main issue) on eNom's credential and new registrations are on there on their own ICANN credential.  Obviously we do not approve or condone whois scraping.
> JLK
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Mark Jeftovic" <markjr at easydns.com>
> To: "Registrars Constituency" <registrars at gnso.icann.org>
> Sent: 7/24/06 11:51 AM
> Subject: [registrars] DROA mining data via our easywhois site
> 
> 
> So I have logs documenting DROA machine harvesting whois data via our 
> easywhois.com universal whois lookup. It's no newsflash that they are 
> harvesting data, but now I have logs showing they are doing it.
> 
> Enom: Aren't these guys one of your resellers?
> 
> Is there any will within ICANN at all to enforce the rules against this?
> 
> Jul 24 12:42:31 sp4506 index.php[13621]: Valid query - host: 
> 209.167.25.246, 
> ref:http://admin.droa.com/miscwhois.asp?domain=kinaree.net, domain: 
> kinaree.net
> 
> Jul 24 12:49:02 sp4506 index.php[16406]: Valid query - host: 
> 209.167.25.205, 
> ref:http://admin.droa.com/miscwhois.asp?domain=partyanimalswy.net, 
> domain: partyanimalswy.net
> 
> Jul 24 13:44:39 sp4506 index.php[18860]: Valid query - host: 
> 209.167.25.241, 
> ref:http://admin.droa.com/miscwhois.asp?domain=forensicanthropology.net, 
> domain: forensicanthropology.net
> 
> Jul 24 14:18:09 sp4506 index.php[19035]: Valid query - host: 
> 209.167.25.205, 
> ref:http://admin.droa.com/miscwhois.asp?domain=mwsdlegal.com, domain: 
> mwsdlegal.com
> 
> Jul 24 14:26:51 sp4506 index.php[19159]: Valid query - host: 
> 209.167.25.205, 
> ref:http://admin.droa.com/miscwhois.asp?domain=g3concert.com, domain: 
> g3concert.com
>