AboutUs.org Whois abuse

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Ray King (founder of Snapnames) seems to have started aboutus.org back in August 2006:

AboutUs: A Wiki About Every Website

However I've just noticed this:

The company has partnerships with a number of domain registrars in the works to put links to each site’s AboutUs page at the top of WhoIs info, in exchange for a badge linked back to that registrar.

So when you search for a domain at say enom.com you get:

Whois Search - Domain name whois

=-=-=-=
Visit AboutUs.org for more information about enom.com
AboutUs: enom.com

Which i'm sure is against the ICANN rules?

Also if you check my "about us" page which I did not create:

Whois-Search.com - AboutUs

It shows my old whois details which I know can only now be found on Alexa:

Related Info for: whois-search.com/

Which seems to be where they get most of their details from:

SonSpring | AboutUs.org - a Sham

It rips most of its info straight from Alexa

So I suggest people edit their "about us" page and even their details on Alexa. Also i'm going to add a nice scraper to get rid of "Visit AboutUs.org for more information about" and complain to ICANN.

Nominet might not be to happy about it either Nominet.org.uk - AboutUs