[AusNOG] APNIC WHOIS

[Matt Carter]

I'm sure someone from APNIC will jump in here in a minute :)

If the record is under your administrative control and you are interested in protecting your own interests (do you really want the world knowing who your clients are?) and the privacy of your customers, I'd be switching all the records over to private anyway, with just the SP umbrella hanging over the top. If it's that much of an issue for the other guy to kick up a stink, maybe he/she should go and make their records private so you can't see them? :)

That said,  I think you will find regardless



[Querying whois.apnic.net]

[whois.apnic.net]

% [whois.apnic.net node-2]

% Whois data copyright terms    http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html



^^^^^^^^

Note the link to copyright terms



http://www.apnic.net/apnic-info/whois_search2/about-whois/protecting-whois/copyright
APNIC Whois Database Acceptable Use Agreement

The APNIC Whois Database acceptable use agreement explicitly states the parameters that copyright extends to:
Except for Internet operational purposes approved by APNIC, no part of the APNIC whois data may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise, without prior permission of APNIC on behalf of the copyright holders. Any use of this material to target advertising or similar activities is explicitly forbidden and will be prosecuted. APNIC requests to be notified of any such activities or suspicions thereof.

If you apply for the bulk tools, which requires signing forms etc, the exact same wording is used.

... If I am recalling correctly(?), harvesting and re-using "copyright" subscriber information from a DB, was the very angle a certain Telco took against the greypages.ws website and the way they it represented subscriber information sourced from various DB's. Not unlike whois ??

Kind regards,


From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Shaun Dwyer
Sent: Tuesday, 20 July 2010 4:07 PM
To: Karl Kloppenborg
Cc: ausnog
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] APNIC WHOIS

If its available in the public whois database, its public information. You can post it anywhere without fear of *successful* legal proceedings ;)

If they are doing something you think is bad or dishonest, out them :D

Cheers!
-Shaun

On 20/07/2010, at 1:58 PM, Karl Kloppenborg wrote:


Hey Noggers,

this is probably just another silly question, but I am having a dispute with someone over them claiming that whois information is private information about their company and thus I can't post it anywhere I want.
Ie, post the whois with a comment on a public domain / forum.

I claim that this is indeed public information and can be used by anyone?

However I thought before I make a total idiot out of myself I would ask you just incase I am wrong and the details are infact "Confidential"


Cheers!
Karl Kloppenborg


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