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Any company that uses a website to process individual tax returns must now show all whois information. The rule applies to any website where taxpayer information is collected, transmitted, processed, or store.
The following rules are being enforced:
– The domain name must be registered …
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ICANN is considering a proposal that would get rid of the public whois database because of privacy concerns, specifically in the Canadian and European privacy laws. Trademark holders, copyright holders, and lobbyists are opposing a move to a private whois as they argue a public whois is necessary for to …
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Global Name Registry is charging for access to its whois database. While ICANN requires that Registries provide a public whois database, particularly for security and legal reasons, GNR won the right to create tiered levels of access to their whois database. Public searches of the database show little more than …
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According to a U.S. Government study, more than 8% of domain names are supposedly registered with false information. According to the report, the info is blatantly and intentionally false, such as registering a phone number of 999-999-999. The study goes on to say that ICANN if failing at weeding out …
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Private domain registrations are supposed to keep your contact information private in the whois database, but new reports demonstrate that this is not always the case. Alan Cordle had created a website using GoDaddy’s Domains By Proxy service. His website illustrated ethical problems in high-level poetry competitions. Because his wife …
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Network Solutions recently blocked Google queries of its public whois database. The problem arose when Google launched a new service allowing visitors to perform whois searches, which is a look up of a domain name owners information. The service ended up receiving so many searches that it surpassed Network Solutions …
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Nominet announced that they would not publish domain expiration dates in the public whois database. The changes are designed to give domain owners greater access to information about their domain names.…
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ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, will be requiring domain registrants to update their full contact information on the publicly available whois database. Failure to keep the data updated could result in a suspended or deleted domain.…
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ICANN has threatened to take away VeriSign’s right to register .com domains unless the company starts to maintain more accurate customer records. The problem lies with falsified whois database records. ICANN has cited 17 violations that have not yet been corrected and has give VeriSign just 15 days to make …
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Nominet, the Registry of the .uk domain, proposed offering comprehensive contact information in the whois database. The proposal has been met with fierce opposition and the Registry is now delaying the changes as it seeks a compromise to calm fears of domain owners.…
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Nominet, the .uk Domain Registry, has planned changes to their whois database, including adding the domain Registrants address to the whois database as well as the expiration date for the domain. The changes will make it easier to find out when a domain is up for renewal or what company …
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VeriSign is currently updating the directory and database software that responds to the majority of whois searches in an effort to improve DNS security and reliability. The update includes a move from Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND), an open-source package, to their own proprietary software package name Advanced Transaction Look-up …
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is having a difficult time shutting down Internet scams because of whois inaccuracies. The FTC said that Registries and Registrars need to do a better job keeping correct domain registration records, but ICANN claims a solution will be difficult.…
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Congressional representatives have submitted a bill to the House that would “provide criminal penalties for providing false information in registering a domain name on the Internet.” Law enforcement authorities have long been frustrated with the difficulties in tracing Internet perpetrators when their whois information is falsified. The new bill seeks …
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Domain Registrants who registered .info domains under false pretences could soon be losing those names. Afilias, the .info Registry, filed challenges to an initial 741 registrants who they believe registered domains with false information. The filed challenges are expected to rise into the thousands.…
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The site WhoAmI.com was hijacked from the rightful owner, Solid Oak Software, when someone from Serbia called Network Solutions pretending to be the account administrator and giving the whois data false information. Solid Oak is still waiting for Network Solutions to correct the error.…
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The US Department of Commerce agreed to extend Network Solution’s contract as a domain name Registrar until the year 2000, in exchange for the company’s release of ‘ownership’ of the current whois data they maintain on 2.5 million domain registrants. The contract provides room for competition from other Registrars by …
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