Andy Gardner wrote:
The "protected" status has nothing to do with their WHOIS registrant info which is freely available:
Registrant Contact- <snip> The status just shows that the domain is locked at the registry (by the Registrar) to prevent possible unauthorised hijacking.
Sure, fat lot of use that is, if I wanted to, say, block their IP numbers or something...
To see an example of a domain where the Registrant has provided ZERO information in the WHOIS, you have to check out names like dietk.com and dietkazaa.com: <Snip>
That's compliant with which Internet RFC?
DROA, IIRC, has been slapped by the FTC before, but that still hasn't stopped them.
eNom could do something about it, but they're climbing up the Registrar charts, possibly due to DROA's success at duping people into moving their domains to eNom, so it's all good business for them.
I guess <sigh>
What, if anything, should ICANN be doing to stop these spammers?
What, if anything, makes you think that ICANN cares?
I'm certain that ICANN doesn't care - that's not the point. Keith Davidson