RE: [registrars] sharing registrant data

["Bryan Evans" <bevans@interaccess.com>]

Rick,

I received the same call today.  My guess is that they're phoning
all of us and asking the same question regarding bulk whois data.

As registrars, our accreditation agreement with ICANN requires us
to provide bulk whois data to any organization that asks for it,
although we're allowed to charge up to $10,000 per year and limit
updates to once a week.  In addition, we have certain rights &
obligations, including causing the purchaser to agree not to spam &
allowing our customers to opt-out in some fashion.

There have been some attempts by members of the Registrar Constituency
to limit the implications of this section of our accreditation
agreement.  I may have disagreed with the timing of one of such
attempt (concurrent with protests against the new agreement between
Verisign & ICANN), but I certainly agree with the general goal of
limiting this onerous & unfair burden.

Essentially, it requires us to give our customer lists to anyone
with $10,000.  No other competitive industry I know of has to abide
by such an insane policy.  Furthermore, it's the kind of restriction
placed on monopolies, designed to limit their influence, but it
applies to all registrars, no matter how small.  That makes no sense
whatsoever, since there are very few barriers to entry in becoming a
registrar.

By the way, the company appears to be ComoreTel, which is, I think,
the telecommunications company part-owned by the nation of Comore
trying to push the Global269 international toll-free number.

-Bryan


Bryan Evans
Director of Technology
InterAccess, an Allegiance Telecom company
bevans@interaccess.com

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-registrars@dnso.org [mailto:owner-registrars@dnso.org]On
Behalf Of Rick H Wesson
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 1:40 PM
To: Registrars List
Subject: [registrars] sharing registrant data



I got a call today from an unnamed telecom organization today asking if I
would share my registrant/contact data. They stated that other registrars
"share" their infomation.

I started to ask lots of questions and they cut the call short.

Has anyone else been approched by simular calls? I would like to know if
any one knows who the company is and what they do with the information.

thanks,

-rick