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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

'Whois' May Be Scrapped to Break Deadlock

Like a "411" for the Internet, Whois contains information such as names and phone numbers on the owners of millions of ".com" and other Internet addresses. Law-enforcement officials, trademark lawyers and journalists, as well as spammers, use it regularly. But some privacy advocates are proposing scrapping the system entirely.

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