CircleID

My .02AUD would be:

At present, many Organisations don't actually NEED an Admin. Contact, because the first contact they receive has an implied "go and get this translated by the Technical contact" invisibly attached.

I look after DNS resources for a number of Govt. departments and I have to use whois heavily to find answers to various needs from spam tracking and resolving PTR typos to generating reports on IP address usage.

As a "third party" and as a Technician, I think closing 43 can only make life harder for the exact people who can most be trusted ( after all, who is it that keeps the data valid? :-)

Come on, guys, this is throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

Penalising me because some Marketers have started misusing things is the same argument as denying me email because of spam.

Find something better!

Why not just remove the email addresses from the WHOIS data instead?

Then other relevant but spam-proof data can still be used, such as domain name status, nameservers, expiry date, company address, and so on.