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- Wacer, on 10/10/2007, -2/+21All I can say as an administrator for a large network is that I hate the ***** who hide a massive number of domains under registries who do protect their identity. They use these stupid domains to send massive spam and pretending to be legitimate companies. They are scum and need to be rooted out. I also understand the need for privacy but their again is a fine line and probably will be debated to no end. If a domain is selling something, they should have no privacy.
- monkeycatDx, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15Saying your I.P. address Backwards on whois will send your computer back to the 5th dimension.
- SIRBERUS, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12My opinion is that the spammers and the people who are being used as the "reason" to make it so easy to grab info... well... do you honestly think they use their real information in their WHOIS records anyways?
This seems like a case where only the honest people will have to give up their privacy, while people committing crimes will do what they always do and... commit crimes. - AriaStar, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Just register with fake info.
- SIRBERUS, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5pw is right. Just buy a PO box.
It's so simple. Oh wait.. I'm poor. - RC2k6, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I don't care if my name is out there, obviously. What I do care about is my address. What if I decide to start a family website then every scumbag with a little bit of knowledge would know exactly where my 1 and 3 year old kids live along with my wife.
- tc1415, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I personally like Nominet's idea on the .uk domains: only non-trading individuals can hide their addresses.
see http://www.nominet.org.uk/other/whois/faq/#choose - h4ppydotcom, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3In the UK, by law, every website owned by a registered company has to display the company's contact details and address on the website. So it should make no difference to companies.
- pw378, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6This is NOT a privacy issue. You don't have to use your home address, or normal email. Use a PO Box and a 'domain administrator' email account. When I am being spammed,DoS'd, or hacked from a domain, I want some contact information.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4give me an effing break. fuzzmeister=godaddy employee.
- flameboy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I dugg you down because I dont think you understand spam and spammers. Real spammers dont care about privacy guards because they either A) dont live in the US or B) are using fake information anyway. The people who get really screwed by WHOIS are the honest private individuals who are forced to reveal their personal information to the world.
- flameboy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2if someone were to realize your contact information was incorrect they could contact your registrar and your domain would be suspended until the WHOIS data was corrected.
- suckrpnch, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21and1.org... while they have some flaws, only 5.99 .com registration and privacy is free.
- RC2k6, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I am facing this dilemma right now. I am trying to register a domain so that I can have MYNAME@MYLASTNAME.COM email address. Unfortunately I have to use .us because all of the other TLDs have me last name registered.
For some idiotic reason the .us TLD cannot be registered privately. I am not using this for business, this is for personal use. I don't want some identity thief to have my home address. If I decide to put up a family website I don't want some scumbag knowing what my kids look like and where they live.
This sucks, we need some level of privacy. - natch, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Wrong, PO Boxes do not provide business owners with privacy. The Post Office will release the name/address details of the PO Box to anyone who asks, provided they can show that the PO Box is being used for business purposes.
Also it's important to remember that not everyone who wants privacy is a scammer, spammer, DoS perpetrator, or otherwise nefarious. - flameboy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1if someone were to realize your contact information was incorrect they could contact your registrar and your domain would be suspended until the WHOIS data was corrected.
- psykiv, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I always just register it with the real information, then as soon as its mine, change all the information to fake information?
- JonForTheWin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1From which it came.
- ikoul, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It's not like the privacy stuff works anyway. For example, if you used GoDaddy's private domain thing I'm sure they'd turn over your information in a second if they were asked by anyone with authority (law enforcement, etc.) They don't care about you.
- Travelsonic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Well, which is it?
Questionable content = questionable content
illegal content = illegal content
There is overlapping, but to suggest one always leads to the other is absurd. - cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -0/+1And his birthday is on the 4/16 too :p
- smackhero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1many businesses and organizations use real info as it's the legitimate way to run a professional organization. but sometimes "legitimate" organizations like Walmart, or the CIA, etc. might still do questionable or illegal things that people later discover by tracing domain names and registered ip blocks. there definitely needs to be a certain level of disclosure while protecting individual privacy. this is why we should have established an international standards organization, similar to the W3C, rather than a private commercial organization to regulate and implement the domain name system.
network solutions has completely failed at effectively implementing a meaningful TLD system. if a professional organization of web researchers had been running the show rather than a bunch of shady businessmen, perhaps we could have effectively set up a class of commercial and political/governmental sites required to submit public registration info, and a class of private sites that wouldn't have their info publicly accessible. - undetected, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Your statement is confusing? Because it's written as a question? You state that you always do something? But then you're unsure?
- wshs, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1They'll also turn it over if they receive a 'demand' on a lawfirm letterhead. No need for a subpoena or NSL.
- smackhero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1yea, this is where network solutions really failed in implementing an effective TLD system. there should be a clear set of domains for commercial/business sites, and others for personal sites. personal sites would not be allowed to do commerce and could hide their registration info, but commercial sites must be registered to an actual address, no fake addresses, no PO boxes. this would cut down on a lot of spam and online scams on the web.
this is another reason i hate network solutions. just because they knew the right people and bribed government officials, they get to regulate the internet without any public input or government regulation/oversight. these issues effect the public and we ought to be able to decide democratically how the internet is run and operated. network solutions doesn't own the internet, and it's the global community that has made the web so great and successful, so why do they and their business buddies get to profit off of their monopolistic control over domain registration.
there ought to be an international non-profit governing body to regulate domain name registration rather than a commercial entity which gets to whatever they want and use favoritism when auctioning off TLDs. - fuzzmeister, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Not quite. I was just suggesting a good way to get around it. I am actually not a big fan of GoDaddy.
- CdeNyikayedu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I need my private registration. My website has just been listed as hostile by a dictator in Zimbabwe because I report the news. I do not want my family that is still there to be in danger. So let me register privately. We are not all spammers.
- smackhero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1then what's the point of even having the WHOIS database?
- lcmatt, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2I think (might be wrong here) that your not actually allowed to do that and can get into trouble, although this might just be for companies.
- SIRBERUS, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1... you want an email address that will have your full name... and you're worried that people might be able to find out who you are via the whois? Get real man. Here, watch this:
I'm guessing your last name is Cruz, and you're from California.
If you fear for your privacy... stay offline. - djrbx, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2I own a domain and if searched in the whois database all my info shows up, personally I do not care. But I do know that it would be nice if it wasn't there for the world to see. But thats just my opinion.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0There's also a wiki containing whois data on over 7,000,000 domains.
http://www.AboutUs.org - maz2331, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Actually, "Private" listings should be eliminated entirely, and false WHOIS info needs to be penalized with loss of the domain.
- bobcrotch, on 10/10/2007, -5/+1Honestly if you're hosting some questionable material and breaking a law then, well you're breaking the law. But I can understand people wanting to have their personal info hidden. Some people feel it's a right (which it is) but whats the big deal about it if you have a respectable domain?
- fuzzmeister, on 10/10/2007, -13/+1http://domainsbyproxy.com
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -14/+0http://www.cheap-wow-gold.eu
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