I can see having some of the info. public to avoid the situation of someone
poaching someone else's name for a domain (as I did) and that person not
being able to find out (or find out easily) who did this or why. But the
idea that you would have to make your home address, etc. available to the
world and for being sold in order to register a domain name if you are
stupid enough to give your real address and other personal info. like I did,
seems crazy to me. There has to be better ways to address both sets of
concerns.
Randall
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Piwowar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] GoDaddy's registration agreement - speaking of priv
>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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