RBL quandry - opinions hereby solicited

Mon Nov 16 23:24:38 UTC 1998

On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 11:16:45AM -0800, Mike Reno wrote:
> WorldNIC will setup a domain without an email address using a bogus
> worldnic.com email address if the owner of the domain wishes to keep his
> email address private.  This is a practice all registrars should consider.
> And, since WorldNIC is another face of NSI, it would seem that this
> practice is well within their acceptable guidelines.

I'll tell you something.

If it's NetSol's policy to make bogus Worldnic.com addresses available for
domain registration, and as a result I can't complain to the WHOIS contacts
because of an incident of net-abuse, I am going to be on the phone to NetSol
very quickly, and I am going to complain loudly and repeatedly.

If the WorldNIC addresses forward somewhere, that's ok.

> WorldNIC is utilizing the database for marketing purposes which is
> something the old guard at NSI was totally against any ISP doing and in
> fact insisted on an agreement to those terms before giving us ftp passwords
> to pull down the .zone files.  

Of course. 

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