It appears that Ray Bellis <r...@bellis.me.uk> said: > >> Is there any case law where someone has asserted a database right for a DNS >> zone? > >> It seems like a rather stupid thing to do. If someone asserted such a >> right, I would make sure not to infringe it by ensuring no entries >> from that database entered my DNS caches or other software. > >It wasn’t the zone itself as such - the concern was use of enumerated zone >data to then perform bulk collection of Whois data.
It's perfectly reasonable to claim a database right in the WHOIS data, but the offense is scraping WHOIS, not enumerating the DNS zone. I could enumerate the DNS zone twice a day every day and so long as I stayed away from WHOIS, nobody would notice or care. R's, John
