--- From: "Thomas Leavitt" <thomas@private> To: "Declan McCullagh" <declan@private> Subject: Semi-anonymous domain name registrations? Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 14:47:20 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Declan, If this is at all permissible, the registrar's should be allowed to do this, rather than a third party - the consumer shouldn't have to pay an extra fee to be able to operate a domain semi-anonymously and avoid address harvesting, etc. On the other hand, this renders "whois" even more useless than it already is... as a long time Internet user, I dislike that intensely. Regards, Thomas Leavitt http://www.domainsbyproxy.com/ Domains by Proxy, Inc. Did you know that for each domain name you register, anyone - anywhere, anytime - can find out your name, home address, phone number and email address? The law requires that the personal information you provide with every domain you register be made public in the "WHOIS" database. Your identity becomes instantly available - and vulnerable - to spammers, scammers, prying eyes and worse. But now there's a solution: Domains By Proxy! -- Thomas Leavitt, Sr. Systems Admin For Hire Resume at http://www.thomasleavitt.org/personal/resume/ Phone: 408-591-3342 / Email: thomas@private / Fax: 815-371-2804 Wired since 1981. Internet-enabled since 1990. Web-enabled since 1993. Older, wiser, and poorer, post-crash. :) Join the System/Database/Network Administrators Job Search Community: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sdnadminjobs/ _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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