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03 October 2008

ICANN cracks down on Whois abuse

James Nurton, London

ICANN, the body that regulates the domain name system, has sent final warnings to two registrars after they failed to investigate and correct Whois data

The notices of breach of contract were sent on September 30 to Beijing Innovative Linkage Technology (doing business as DNS.com.cn) in China and Joker.com in Germany.




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