Two months later Cocomo.com still has bogus whois information.
You would think that a brand management intellectual property company would enforce whois accuracy on its customers. But apparently not.
Two months ago I wrote about the sale of Cocomo.com for $33,000. The domain name had just been transferred to CSC (Corporation Service Company) with obviously bogus whois information:
I submitted a whois inaccuracy report to ICANN. I assumed the registrant information would be quickly updated. After all, we are talking about a brand protection company here. If a brand management company gets an email from ICANN saying one of their customers has false whois information, you’d think they’d act. But today I received an update notice asking me if the whois record had been updated.
It has not. The domain name is still registered to a Ms. Sue D Nym on Main Street in Anywhere, IL.
[Update: as John points out, the whois has been updated as of 12/16/11]
George Kirikos says
Perhaps ICANN’s compliance department should threaten their registrar accreditation. That might get their attention.
theo says
Andrew,
How much time passed when you filed the complaint and did you follow up on the automated emails that where send ?
Usually 45 days is normal.
If you send the report correctly ICANN quicklu sends it and keep reminding the registrar in question a few times..
Andrew Allemann says
@ theo – I submitted it through the Internic web site and clicked the confirmation link. They just sent the 45 day notice asking if it had been corrected or not.
rs says
There is no profit in answering one of these complaints so why would they waste their time?
How are those Godaddy domain locking complaints going? How about the truncated Godaddy whois data complaints?
rs says
marchex owns unspecified.com so they could grab it.
Steve says
What is the eventual penalty (if any) if the Whois is not corrected? Can the site be taken away (…if yes, is there a case of this actually happening)?
Josh says
Cocomo… we’ll get there faster if we take it slow…
John Berryhill says
It’s updated now.