[ga] Fw: Big trouble with .BIZ (maybe)

["Jim Fleming" <jfleming@anet.com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ST" <st@kru.org>
To: <discuss-list@opensrs.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 4:11 AM
Subject: Big trouble with .BIZ (maybe)


> I posted a message last week about my personal .biz domains showing the
> wrong contact info in the WhoIs. Well, I just checked the WhoIs on all
> 178 domains that were successfully registered through my account. A
> total of 18 domains had the wrong contact info, belonging to 7 different
> customers (including me). In all cases, if one domain name has the wrong
> info, all of that customers names have the same wrong info. However, in
> each case, the DNS info is correct. I've checked the original orders in
> the RWI, and the contact info is correct.
> 
> Wait! It gets worse. Here's the really scary thing. Some of the contact
> info that is there leads me to think that these names were not unique.
> For instance, one of the domains that has the wrong contact info is a
> real estate related domain. The WhoIs info shows the domain registered
> to a woman in Canada. I went to the domain that her email was based on,
> and it was a service that specializes in making websites for real estate
> firms and marketing them. So it would make sense that this person had
> actually applied for that same domain as my customer.
> 
> In another case, the domain deals with email lists, I think. Once again,
> I went to the domain that the admin contacts e-mail is based on, and
> it's a cheesy internet marketing webpage.
> 
> Hopefully it's just a coincidence, and it's just a matter of NeuLevel
> straightening out their WhoIs.
> 
> ST
> 
> 

--
This message was passed to you via the ga-full@dnso.org list.
Send mail to majordomo@dnso.org to unsubscribe
("unsubscribe ga-full" in the body of the message).
Archives at http://www.dnso.org/archives.html