Who Is info for DMOZ editors

Is the who is info checked for accuracy?

[drdsl2000]

An friend owns serveral web sites that have been denied listing by DMOZ editors repeatly.

He noted that the WhoIs information was falsified due to fear that Google was checking it in their Algo.

Would false WhoIs info cause an editor to ignore a directory submission?

Craigster

[windharp]

No, sites are selected by their content.

[drdsl2000]

windharp,

Thank you for your reply.

Craigster

[hutcheson]

Are you not aware that false whois information can cause immediate loss of the domain name?

And ... Google is claiming not to be looking at the whois information anyway.

Of course, if you don't believe Google, I don't see why you should believe ODP editors when they tell you the same thing.

And if you lie to the domain registry, why would you expect anyone (whom you already suspect of suspecting you of nefarious deeds) not to lie to you?

I don't see how this helped you, but my tinfoil hat is at the tinker's for XP-SP2 upgrades.

[rfgdxm1]

>Are you not aware that false whois information can cause immediate loss of the domain name?

Yes it can be, but I don't think this is what the OP meant. If by falsified he meant listing the owner as the current president of the US, with the address 1600 Pennsylania Ave, Washington, DC THAT is a no-no. I think the OP was referring to obscuring true ownership in a way that didn't involve actual falsification. Some registrars for an extra fee will do this for you. If a whois is done, it just lists the registrar as the contact info, and they act as the owner's agent.

[motsa]

But that really isn't "falsifying". "Falsifying" implies something not quite kosher.

[windharp]

But (coming back to the topic of the question) even that does not influence an ODP listing most of the times. Lets construct a complex example where it could matter, but I don't think this is relevant:

Assume your competitor sets up a mirror of your site (but providing goodlooking WhoIs Data). In the unlikely case the reviewing editor does not reject the new submission with "already listed as ****" he could maybe try to compares even EhoIs Data to see if one is a fake. But remember: The editor does not need to and most likely he would just assume that the one he lsited earlier is the original and the other one is a mirror. At least that is whart I would do, because most mirrors are in fact set up by the owner of the site, so it does not matter which one we list :-)