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The article mentions the email listed in WHOIS gave an error. Isn't there some kind of rule that WHOIS contact information must be accurate? Would it be useful
by 0x0 14y ago
The article mentions the email listed in WHOIS gave an error. Isn't there some kind of rule that WHOIS contact information must be accurate? Would it be useful to consider trying to get the domain pulled - that would certainly get the attention, no? And perhaps set a precedent for others keeping the information current, too.
- k3n 14y agoPossibly, but there's also a physical address listed on the WHOIS record, and if that is the actual address of the contact then it'd probably be tough to move forward on those grounds. But this is kind of getting into the entire CISPA issue: who, if anyone, has the right to take a site offline? How are they empowered (elected/appointed, federal/international, etc.)? What types of sites, if any, should be taken down? On what grounds and under which due process? Using this scenario as an example would be scary; Sophos, a for-profit corporation, is saying that some other company has some threat of unspecified impact. I'm not saying that Sophos would do anything malicious, but I do think there could arise conflicts of interest when you consider their products.