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Approximately 15 percent to 25 percent of domain names have been registered in a manner that limits the amount of personal information available to the public through WHOIS queries, according to the preliminary results of a report from ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers).
Domain owners who want to limit the amount of personal information available to the public generally use a privacy or a proxy service. A privacy service lets the registrant limit the amount of personal information available via a search in a WHOIS database, while proxy services register domain names on behalf of registrants.
It's the use of these two services that ICANN has surveyed, the organization said on Thursday. The main objective of the study -- which was based on a random sample of 2,400 domain names registered under .com, .net, .org, .biz and .info -- is to establish baseline information to inform the ICANN community on how common privacy and proxy services are.
ICANN now is seeking community comments, which can be filed until Nov. 6, on the report.
But ICANN isn't just taking a closer look at how secretive domain owners are. On Sept. 28 it announced plans to conduct a study into the misuse of public data available via WHOIS searches and in June it announced a study of domain name WHOIS contact data accuracy.
Information from WHOIS searches can be used by spammers, but at the same time correct information is necessary when pursuing cybersquatters and cybercriminals.
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Comments (9)
idiotsBy Anonymous on October 2, 2009, 3:58 pmif you don't want legitimate web owners to use privacy proxies, you should have fixed the spammer abuse problem. I got tired of spam coming through my domain registration,...
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IdiotBy Anonymous on October 4, 2009, 4:55 amMaybe if you would have fixed your Spam problem ..
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ICANN studies clever domain ownersBy Anonymous on October 4, 2009, 5:46 amICANN studies secretive domain owners or ICANN studies domain owners to identify ways to prevent intrusions of privacy, spam and identity theft?
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A stalker used it torment my familyBy Anonymous on October 5, 2009, 2:02 pmScrew ICANN. A stalker used the information in WHOIS to find out my home phone number and address. I registered my personal web site years and years ago before all...
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Another stalkerBy Anon on October 5, 2009, 4:47 pmI agree - it's just too damn dangerous to have private info available. The same 'stalker' business happened to me, and to a former colleague of mine. There are...
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Hide it or be firedBy Anonymous on October 5, 2009, 5:24 pmI keep my domain name registration hidden, so that it does not adversely affect my employment situation. I don't want someone where I currently work, or a future...
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