VeriSign DNS in Trouble

hesiod writes "Over at CNet News, there is an article reporting that VeriSign may lose their ability to sell domains. Evidently, ICANN is miffed because VS's WHOIS database has incorrect information. Not exactly news to most of us, but they have been given 15 days to fix the errors, or risk losing the ability to sell domains."

Re:Screw ICANN

[Anonymous Coward]

Say "Good Bye!" to your domain(s) then, skippy! I need to go and submit your domain to rfc-ignorant.org [rfc-ignorant.org]

One record in question..

[molo]

One of the records in question is that for dundjerski.com, in which there is false information for the Administrative Contact:

Dundjerski, Marina (MDE220)
Marina Dundjerski
000 Blank St.
No city, XX 00000
US
123-123-1234

However, on the same record, the "Registrant" field lists an address for the same name as above. If this is the worst that they can come up with, I hardly consider this a big deal.

-molo

How convenient

[gmhowell]

Verisign has given me about 15 days to renew my registration of domain.

Not gonna happen.

Hello gandi.net

SSL operations seperate from DNS operations

[sjanich]

The DNS operations are a completely different thing from the issuing of SSl certifications. So, there is no fear in that going away.

i'm forgetting again

[gsfprez]

what law is it breaking to have incorrect data?

in fact, i have incorrect data because i and my wife were being stalked - and the WHOIS database is where he thought i lived. He went looking for us at the old address.

and what's the worst part of all - to have ANY level of security from a whois search that could give sickos and perverts your address is by getting a P.O. Box.. from the USPS!

Imagine, the key to internet privacy is the Postal Service. Now that's just great.

Letter from Louis Touton

[nutznboltz]

http://www.icann.org/correspondence/touton-letter- to-beckwith-03sep02.htm [icann.org]

Cites the 17 broken entries.

The best of both worlds... at register.com.

[Anonymous Coward]

At register.com, they let you setup billing address info for your account that they use to contact you, privately. It's SEPARATE from the information actually showing in the public WHOIS database.

View the WHOIS record for my domain, winzig.com [netsol.com].

Truly, this is not my contact information:

123 No Spam Ave.
No Spam, CA 90210 US
Phone: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

However, if I was a spammer, or breaking the law on my website, the feds could still contact me if they are able to subpoena register.com for my billing info. And register.com can still send me reminders for domain renewals, which is all I care about anyway.