FED UP with rampant fraud and deceit on the Internet, U.S. Representatives Howard Coble, R-N.C., and Howard Berman, D-Calif., have submitted a draft bill for consideration in the House of Representatives that would “provide criminal penalties for providing false information in registering a domain name on the Internet.”
Internet charlatans frequently use incorrect identifying information, such as false names and contact numbers, when registering Internet addresses. This frustrates law enforcement authorities, as they have trouble tracing perpetrators when the “WHOIS” databases of Internet registrars are unreliable. The draft bill is designed to grapple with that problem.
