Duster
04-17-2001, 08:34 PM
After a recent discussion here wherein we discussed some questionable terms of a regsitrar, I went to ICANN's site to seek the terms all regsitrars have to abide by. I didn't find it and let them know. Today, I got a response. The whole thing is at http://www.icann.org/nsi/nsi-rla-04nov99.htm
Section 3.2 on limitations of use revealed some interesting bits of information.
Registrar agrees to employ the necessary measures to prevent its access to the System granted hereunder from being used for
(i) the transmission of unsolicited, commercial e?mail (spam) to entities other than Registrar's customers;
(ii) high volume, automated, electronic processes that apply to NSI for large numbers of domain names, except as reasonably necessary to register domain names or modify existing registrations; or
(iii) high volume, automated, electronic, repetitive queries for the purpose of extracting data to be used for Registrar's purposes, except as reasonably necessary to register domain names or modify existing registrations.
What it doesn't stipulate is that they have to take measures to prevent the registrar's ciustomers (us) form being spammed, or for the Whois data form being harvested for purposes other than Registrar ones.
Domain registrations are a primary source for harvesting by spammers and now we know why. The Registrar License agreement makes it open season and us fair game for spammers.
NSI and ICANN, two terrible and unresponsive organizations to the needs of Internet users.
Section 3.2 on limitations of use revealed some interesting bits of information.
Registrar agrees to employ the necessary measures to prevent its access to the System granted hereunder from being used for
(i) the transmission of unsolicited, commercial e?mail (spam) to entities other than Registrar's customers;
(ii) high volume, automated, electronic processes that apply to NSI for large numbers of domain names, except as reasonably necessary to register domain names or modify existing registrations; or
(iii) high volume, automated, electronic, repetitive queries for the purpose of extracting data to be used for Registrar's purposes, except as reasonably necessary to register domain names or modify existing registrations.
What it doesn't stipulate is that they have to take measures to prevent the registrar's ciustomers (us) form being spammed, or for the Whois data form being harvested for purposes other than Registrar ones.
Domain registrations are a primary source for harvesting by spammers and now we know why. The Registrar License agreement makes it open season and us fair game for spammers.
NSI and ICANN, two terrible and unresponsive organizations to the needs of Internet users.