House to Hold Hearings on Whois Privacy
A House Judiciary Subcommittee is holding hearings on the privacy implications of the Whois database. The Whois database contains the personal contact information of persons who have registered a domain name. Marketers who use the contact information for spam and direct mail advertisements frequently mine the database. In addition, VeriSign, a leading domain name registrar, sells Whois information to marketers.EPIC Letter in Support of Voluntary Submission of Information to the Whois Database, EPIC Web Site, July 12, 2001.
Testimony of Dr. Jason Catlett on the Whois Database: Privacy and Intellectual Property Issues, Subcommittee on the Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property of the Committee on the Judiciary, July 12, 2001.
Whois at heart of congressional hearings, CNET, July 11, 2001.
