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+-   WHOIS faces the axe-> on Tuesday October 30 2007, @07:01AM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 30 2007, @07:01AM
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An anonymous reader writes "HEXUS.net reports that "A growing group of net privacy advocates is presurring Internet overseer ICANN into scrapping WHOIS, the web's domain-name 'phone book'." It is claimed that the system, which is open to abuse, doesn't do enough to protect domain registrants details from spammers and fraudsters, and should be either scapped or overhauled. The article goes on to compare WHOIS to an another much-abused technogy: E-Mail.

WHOIS, much like e-mail, is an age-old Internet relic that comes from a time when the Internet was almost considered a network of trustworthy users. E-mail has, quite clearly, some massive problems coping in the modern age, but it's still here. It stands to reason, then, that WHOIS won't be going anywhere any time soon. Just like e-mail, it's prone to abuse. But again, just like e-mail, it's too useful to axe.
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