Re: [ga] Fwd: LACTLD comments on Zone Transfers

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>]

At 12:20 a.m. 20/09/2002 -0500, Andy Gardner wrote:
> >We, on the other hand, think that it is just not realistic to think
> >that anything resembling normal operation of a ccTLD could be attempted
> >using the zone file alone. So, fears and hopes about what can be done
> >with the zone file in terms of forced redelegations are, in our view,
> >greatly exaggerated.
>
>Unless ICANN has used that zone file data to slowly and quietly walk
>through your WHOIS database to take a copy of all the ownership data as
>well.
>
>THEN you're ripe for a redelegation.

This was already done to the .nz WHOIS database by a bunch of Australian 
scammers/slammers  who called themselves ING. (now in liquidation)
Can't be all that difficult to cream a  relatively small ccTLD in that fashion.




--Joop

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