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Re:Who is WHOIS: a brief biography of Internet user privacy by lizdenys on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @03:13PM (#9847480)
It's true that WHOIS always catalogued both name and IP, but in the early days, they corresponded to the same position in the network. The information for the owner of that block was already in the ARPANET directory that WHOIS duplicated.

Domains and IPs used to be closely tied together, but that’s not the case anymore - when you WHOIS the IP lizdenys.com is at, you don’t get anything, but when you WHOIS the name lizdenys.com, you get information about me. Getting my personal information when you WHOIS lizdenys.com isn’t in the spirit of getting the information in the original WHOIS directory.

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Re:Who is WHOIS: a brief biography of Internet user privacy by fapjacks on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @03:48PM (#9847648)
It's a bullshit power grab backed 100% by the special interests in the "entertainment" industry. Thank you for your insightful analysis. It makes excellent points salient to why this proposed policy change shouldn't be approved.
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