Is Muddleworks scanning your DNS too?

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Sun Dec 1 01:45:03 UTC 2002


At 10:59 AM 11/29/02, Joseph S D Yao wrote:
> > What is the status of DNS data?  Is it in the public domain?  Or is
> > it implicitly copyright, but made available for limited use (similar
> > to the data in published telephone directories).
>
>Data in published telephone books is the property of the telephone
>company, not of the subscriber.  Is this theft?

I believe that telephone numbers, at least in the US, are still owned by
the telephone company. You just have the right to use it.

Danny



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