From: Warren Huisman 
Sent: Friday, 12 August 2005 5:57 PM
To: jo.lim@auda.org.au
Subject: RE: [announce] auDA reviews WHOIS and Domain Name Password Policies

Hi,

RE: WHOIS Data

We are a reseller with 100's of domains for our clients.  Our only objection to the 
WHOIS data is to prevent the listing of an email address.  Why?  Because SPAMMER's 
(mainly US and other countries) are harvesting this information and adding them to 
SPAMMING lists.  We have proof of this because we have changed the registrant email 
multiple times and eventually they get on the list again.

The email address of WHOIS should only be used for reminder notices or any other 
domain related information.  It should not be visible to the generate public.

A way of implementing this feature would be a "contact form" (on the main registry 
etc) that if a person of the public wants to contact a domain owner the submit form 
would relay the message through to the registrant.   Thus allow a message to go 
through but not revealing the email address.

Regards,

Warren Huisman
Senior Project Manager
Datasearch Pty Ltd