Re:ICANN's assault on personal and small business privacy
by jakobegger on Sunday June 28, 2015 @07:49AM
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In my country, every business is required by law to provide detailed contact information and registration numbers on their website. It baffles me whenever I see one of those US startup websites with no contact info, not even an address or a PO box, and still they expect their customers to provide detailed billing info and share private data.
How can I trust a business when it hides behind an anonymous registrar? If something goes wrong with my order, I'd have no way to even determine who is behind the company.
Of course, the free speach argument is mostly irelevant. There are plenty of ways to share anonymously either on other people's domains, on TOR, or using just IP addresses. If my privacy was important, I wouldn't rely on Godaddy to protect it.
How can I trust a business when it hides behind an anonymous registrar? If something goes wrong with my order, I'd have no way to even determine who is behind the company.
Of course, the free speach argument is mostly irelevant. There are plenty of ways to share anonymously either on other people's domains, on TOR, or using just IP addresses. If my privacy was important, I wouldn't rely on Godaddy to protect it.