no whois info ?

Thu Dec 9 19:44:18 UTC 2004

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 2:33 PM
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: no whois info ?
> 
> 
> 
> At 01:50 PM 09/12/2004, Jeff Rosowski wrote:
> >>>shell1% whois vestigial3had.com
> >>...
> >>>No match for "VESTIGIAL3HAD.COM".
> >>>What gives ?  How can there be no whois info anywhere ?
> >
> >You can also make whois information private, usually for an 
> additional fee.
> 
> I wonder what % of domains that have their whois info hidden 
> or "private" 
> are throwaway spam domains...  Some number approaching 100% I would 
> bet.  It would be nice to somehow incorporate this into a 
> SpamAssassin 
> check somehow.

Perhaps 100% of spammers hide their registration data when possible,
but I wouldn't say that 100% of hidden registrations are spammers.

An RBL option of this type of data would probably mean forced 
elimination of a benefit to the public - privacy. 

-M<