Subj : BINKD Echo Rules
To   : Ward Dossche
From : Janne Johansson
Date : Mon Jun 04 2018 04:42 pm

On 2018-06-04 14:07, Ward Dossche : Janne Johansson wrote:
>
> JJ> The whois info is more or less hiding all details these days except the
> JJ> dates and NS servers, so I didn't see much of a difference in the
> output
> JJ> from them, apart from the 2027 enddate.
>
> If you use the whois from for example GoDaddy for fidonet.org it will
> list the registrant country as BE.

Yes, I see now in the output that BE is visible, but it is also well
hidden next to all of this:
Registrant Name: Data Protected Data Protected
Registrant Organization: Data Protected
Registrant Street: 123 Data Protected
Registrant Street:
Registrant City: Kirkland
Registrant State/Province: WA
Registrant Postal Code: 98033
Registrant Country: US

Registrant Phone: +1.0000000000

Registrant Phone Ext:

Registrant Fax: +1.0000000000
Registrant Email: noreply@data-protected.net

Admin Name: Data Protected Data Protected
Admin Organization: Data Protected
Admin Street: 123 Data Protected
[...]

Makes it hard to "trust" any data apart from NS-records and dates.

So yes, I managed to imply .org was squatted erroneously, but then again
just being registered via BE in itself wouldn't be proof this domain
also wasn't. I'm sure there are squatters there too.

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