Registrars, WHOIS, Privacy and Best Practices

[Milton Mueller]

>>> Danny Younger <dannyyounger at YAHOO.COM> 10/24/2006 3:12 PM >>>
>"Registrars implement best practices for third party
>access to data not published in WHOIS//OPOC"

What are the "best practices" referred to? 

>What it probably means is that registrars are
>signalling that OPOC will allow them the latitude to
>charge a fee for providing non-published data to
>whomever requests it.

Obviously we'd be unhappy with that. On the .mobi PAB, I shot down some
proposals to do that within the new .mobi domain.