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Re:Facebook accused of trying to decloak domain owners' pers... by inetknght on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @11:42AM (#23629239)
> There's no requirement that the domain owner's contact be a "registered agent." In fact, the person who owns the domain may be different from the business using it.

No, but if the domain itself is serving content then the domain owner is, and should be, party to any complaints related to the domain. Even if the domain owner isn't the "registered agent" of the business, they assuredly must know how to contact the registered agent and should have "skin in the game", so to speak, for being a proxy. Not knowing or being able to contact the business owner is, I would argue, grounds for fraud and misrepresentation.

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Re:Facebook accused of trying to decloak domain owners' pers... by fortran77 on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @01:41PM (#23631231)
I don't think CloudFlare knows who my registered agent is. But I am a paid customer of theirs and they cache my website and serve my DNS.
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Re:Facebook accused of trying to decloak domain owners' pers... by admax88q on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @01:55PM (#23631437)
Do they own your domain? Or just serve it. Were taking about domain owners not hosts
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Re:Facebook accused of trying to decloak domain owners' pers... by inetknght on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @02:11PM (#23631681)
CloudFlare responds to fraud claims and legal action.
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Re:Facebook accused of trying to decloak domain owners' pers... by asjw on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @11:53AM (#23629401)
So Facebook should be considered a proxy for frauds delivered through Facebook.

I agree .

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Re:Facebook accused of trying to decloak domain owners' pers... by throwaway_jobs on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @12:00PM (#23629524)
They certainly should be...but they lobbied for laws that say they aren’t liable.

That is why there is a major effort to repeal those laws.

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