This is the main reason why I have stopped using godaddy. If my whois info is incorrect that's a problem between me and icann. This doesn't mean my registrar should sell the domain.
There is also a difference between having incorrect whois and being unreachable. Because godaddy can't reach me doesn't mean the contact info is incorrect.
Godaddy you are *ing maniac idiots who are obsessed with whois info. I'm warning others everywhere about this crap.
I think it is technically possible to write a program that scans godaddy whois info for incorrect admin emails. All you need is lists of admin emails of godaddy domains. If there is a bulk whois tool this should do it. Then you would send message to all these emails and those that are not valid will return the email.
Also sometimes people use an email adress of another domain they have. If that other domain has expired the email address will become incorrect although it was perfectly correct before. So another dodgy way for scammer would be to compare expired domain lists to godaddy whois admin emails.
Let's say you own johnrobert.com. Your email adress is
[email protected]. You are using that email for everything. You have also set
[email protected] as admin email for your other domains. Maybe this is also the email you are uısing for your registrar account. For some reason you were unable to renew it. Maybe you were in hospital, you had an accident or something else has happened.
If I was a scammer and found out that johnrobert.com has expired and there are valuable domains that use
[email protected] as admin email then I would register that domain when it becomes available. If this was an organized plan I would have lots of domains like johnrobert.com. Probably I want use a domain tasting registrar because I don't want to pay 8 USD for all those potentially usefull domains, right? I only need it for the email account.
If I can get it I would try to login to the registrar account and choose "I forget my password" and they would email it to my brand new email address.
If could not get it then I would check the registrar of those valuable domains. If any are with godaddy I'm in luck. I would claim incorrect whois info because I know the owner won't get the email because johnrobert.com has expired.
Another thing is that icann's whois policy is also completely wrong. Because I want to register a domain should not mean everybody can access my full name, address, email and phone number. I agree that this info should be required but it shouldn't be public.