bmanning(a)vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
Interweb?
Kiwi in-joke, sorry.
what side effects do you think accrue from the effect of turning off or anonymising whois? (both good and bad)
Good, it may make spammer harvesting of email address a bit harder, and perhaps also help prevent abuse like domain squatting/hijacking. Dubious that it would though, and it would create more hoops for legitimate registrants to jump through as well. Bad, it'd make the registrants anonymous. I bet if .nz were to anonymise whois, spammers would register all their throwaway domains here. If you don't give out any whois information at all, it'd be hard to keep details like nameserver records accurate.
what side effects do you think accure from the effect of turning off the DNS (both good and bad) ** i posit that it is not reasonable to consider "anonymising" the DNS.
Ah, no, never suggested that. I don't think either can be anonymised. -- Juha