I applied for "port 43" access to GoDaddy's normal whois records (still "domains by proxy" if private registration) this week. They require you to sign a very s

I applied for "port 43" access to GoDaddy's normal whois records (still "domains by proxy" if private registration) this week. They require you to sign a very short contract stating what you're using it for and stipulating you can't bulk scrape it or use it for marketing. Still waiting on approval, am somewhat interested to see whether they approve my request. As far as spam goes, I don't generally use private registration, but use dedicated email addresses for my whois contacts, and I rotate them on a regular basis. The scraping seems to happen soon after a domain is registered, but there's a much longer lag when changing the email address.