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A comment on ICANN's assault on personal and small business privacy.

Re:ICANN's assault on personal and small business privacy by z3t4 on Sunday June 28, 2015 @07:37AM (#9793139)
Just register the domain with a bogus name that sounds real. I don't think the domain provider will care as long as the bill gets paid.

I do not however like that companies can be totally anonymous on the Internet. It's not like the average person checks out the people behind a company before they buy some commodity from them. I do however whois a domain if I'm suspicious and a common thing is that most use anonymous registrars. Even serious companies use anonymous registrars now a days, witch is weird, or maybe I'm the only one who thinks it's important to know who the people behind a company are before you do business with them.

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Re:ICANN's assault on personal and small business privacy by kuschku on Sunday June 28, 2015 @08:48AM (#9793308)
Well, where I live, if the domain ever runs out, or you want to transfer it, they’ll send a letter to the name and address you gave with a code. This is to prevent shady registrars from taking your domain away from you, but it also means the registry knows your address.

Luckily, the organization that administrates .de domains has 4 types of contact data: zone-C, the person managing the whole DNS zone, Tech-C, the person managing the servers of the specific domain, Admin-C, the person practically owning the domain, and OWNER, the person who gets the letters. Only Tech-C and Zone-C are available through WHOIS.

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