WHOIS blackout period likely starting in May

Re:WHOIS blackout period likely starting in May by ktosobcy on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @06:06PM (#17078333)

Why would YOU have to do it? For me it's enough that officials have access to this information (and common folks when requested, but with valid motivation). And as a result I don't have problems with my identity being out in the open (and I don't get a single spamy mail)

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Re:WHOIS blackout period likely starting in May by greglindahl on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @07:21PM (#17078744)

The reason this is done in public is because plenty of fraud happens when only officials can get access to property ownership and tax info -- even in countries that are relatively less corrupt.

Also, the bit about mortgages means that mortgages rates are lower when appraisals are more accurate; the largest inputs to home value appraisals in the US are sales data and tax data.

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Re:WHOIS blackout period likely starting in May by ktosobcy on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @12:32AM (#17080018)

But the thing is - not only officials can get that data. Its simply not that easily available (so you can't harvest it like mails on the Web)

As for house market - in other counties (where dará is more hidden) it still works. and as far as I know housing market in the US is quite... weird, so it seems this data doesn't help that much?

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Re:WHOIS blackout period likely starting in May by greglindahl on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @01:03AM (#17080134)

A housing market that's full of fraud and that has extra-high interest rates still "works". I don't think you're understanding my point at all, or maybe you don't mind fraud.

But in any case, those are the problems that transparency are trying to help solve.

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Re:WHOIS blackout period likely starting in May by icebraining on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @05:09AM (#17080972)

You seem to be repeating the talking point without addressing the counter-argument. Why is a system where people can access that data, just with a couple of roadblocks to avoid mass harvesting, not enough to avoid fraud?

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Re:WHOIS blackout period likely starting in May by greglindahl on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @11:58AM (#17083415)

I'm just describing the problems that the current system appears to be designed to solve. If you want to design a new system, great, have at it. I don't have an opinion about that, other than that you probably should try to solve the same problems.

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