This is still important for those who look for WHOIS privacy and thinks that putting random stuff in the "domain holder" form isn't that bad. I did it once and received a mail that if the info is wrong, your domain may be removed. I reverted it immediately because:
I didn't know about that.
I didn't want to lose my domain :)
Of course those who spread malware on the Internet doesn't care about that. I guess they have some methods to register domains without putting a lot of info and don't get banned, but I'm not one of them so I don't know :)
I mentioned it to reaffirm that a WHOIS record is not a reliable source for attribution. Just because there's a name and phone number for a malicious site in a WHOIS record doesn't mean it's real.
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This is still important for those who look for WHOIS privacy and thinks that putting random stuff in the "domain holder" form isn't that bad. I did it once and received a mail that if the info is wrong, your domain may be removed. I reverted it immediately because:
Of course those who spread malware on the Internet doesn't care about that. I guess they have some methods to register domains without putting a lot of info and don't get banned, but I'm not one of them so I don't know :)
I mentioned it to reaffirm that a WHOIS record is not a reliable source for attribution. Just because there's a name and phone number for a malicious site in a WHOIS record doesn't mean it's real.