Niels,

In the interests of brevity I did not detail that I also used alternate 
gov't and ngo means to verify that the family foundation
was not credible. However, the WHOIS registration date was valuable to 
toss up an initial warning flag.

Sam L.

On 7/6/2017 4:54 AM, Niels ten Oever wrote:
> Verifying the credibility of the U.S. family foundation would have been
> done in many different ways too, and is by no means a final check of
> approval/credibility. In the same context WHOIS could be used to harass
> the (for example) Kenyan NGO and its collaborators during upcoming
> Kenyan elections.
>