Some food for thought

Oki all,

This gem dropped into my in-tray this afternoon, and I've sanitized the part
that is relevant to :43. 

Someone is flogging 10^^8 records that look surprisingly similar to whois
data, from select spindles, in CD form, for $200, or .0005 cents/record.
Of course, the mechanism of acquisition of the data need not have been any
protocol, contract (bulk sale) is another possibility.

Just to keep my understanding of the market in registrant data consistent
with reality, anyone who has data on mass-registrant data (prices, vendors,
date of acquisition, format (this vendor's format of choice is EXCELL), do
drop me a note off-list.

Eric

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>Subject: 10.000.000 Domains For You
>
>You could be interested in [advert identifer removed]
>
>[advert identifer removed] Multi-CD-Roms Marketeers Domain Names Kit
>is a wonderful tool for Internet Marketing.
>It contains a domain database with 10 million records from .com, .net,
>.org, and .edu.
>
>Each record includes:
>	Domain Name,
> 	Registrant,
> 	Registrant Code,
> 	Registrant Address,
> 	Registrant City,
> 	Admin Contact,
> 	Admin Code,
> 	Admin email,
> 	Admin Company,
> 	Admin Address,
> 	Admin City,
> 	Admin Tel,
> 	Admin Fax,
> 	Tech Contact,
> 	Tech Code,
> 	Tech Email,
> 	Tech Company,
> 	Tech Address,
> 	Tech City,
> 	Tech Tel,
> 	Tech Fax,
> 	Bill Contact,
> 	Bill Code,
> 	Bill Email,
> 	Bill Company,
> 	Bill Address,
> 	Bill City,
> 	Bill Tel,
> 	Bill Fax,
> 	Server 1,
> 	Server IP 1,
>       ...
>	Server 6,
>	Server IP 6


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