FYI on another company's offering and policy, quoted from "Ask Yahoo!
Small Business Help" - otherwise no comment, advertisement, or
endorsement is intended or implied (good thing IANAL):
(begin quote)
What is Private Domain Registration?
All domain name owners must include contact information in their domain
name record; however, you don't have to make this information public.
Yahoo! Private Domain Registration allows you to conceal your personal
information from unwanted solicitors by listing contact information for
Yahoo!'s domain name registration partner, Melbourne IT, in place of
your own registrant, administrative, technical, and billing contact
information in the public WHOIS database. Your own contact information
will remain associated with your domain in Yahoo!/Melbourne IT's
database but will not be made available in the public WHOIS. Learn more
about why this information is required.
(Please note that the registrant name and anonymous information such as
your domain name servers will remain public. Furthermore, be aware that
Melbourne IT reserves the right to disclose your contact information to
comply with laws and other regulations as it deems appropriate. Learn
more.)
Yahoo! Private Domain Registration is available with all new Yahoo!
domain registrations and certain other domains registered through Yahoo!
If you'd like to activate private registration for a domain you have
purchased elsewhere and redelegated for use with your Yahoo! service,
please contact your domain registrar and ask about the availability of
this feature.
Please note that due to restrictions surrounding .us domain names,
private registration is not available for domain names with the
extension .us.
(end quote)
One other thing - domain registration policy can be, er, well,
interesting. Different TLDs (top level domains) have different
policies, e.g., on eligibility and on registrars. Check the registry
operator's web site. For example, Educause both manages the .edu domain
and is its sole registrar. Its web site has information on
eligibility. (There's a LOT of information out there ...)
-Andy
Tom Piwowar wrote:
>> You acknowledge and agree that domain name registration requires
that this
>> contact information, in whole or in part, be shared with the registry
>> operator. As required by ICANN, this information must also be made
>> publicly available by means of Whois, and that the registry operator
may
>> also be required to make this information publicly available by Whois
>
> By law, this information must be public. The idea is to fight phishers
> and spammers by forcing names to be public. Of course the bad guys don't
> register honestly and use Whois to harvest names for spamming. This is
> what happens when innocents make the laws. Also shows why it is such a
> good idea to elect crooks to Congress.
>
> For an *extra fee* GoDaddy will let you register a domain in their name
> so your information is not made public.
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