The GoDaddy guy said all that is required is a legitimate address; doesn't
have to be your personal address. I would give a legitimate street address.
If you can tell me what legitimate societal purpose is served by ICANN not
only having my home address and other personal information but having this
available in a public registry, available for sale, then I'll consider
putting down my home address or paying the extra cost to keep these private
(effectively more than doubling the domain registration cost if using the
GoDaddy privacy option). Otherwise, I am put in a situation of either
having this information available to anyone in the world, including for
commercial exploitation, or have to pay additional money to preserve
privacy. Perhaps if I was a business this might be considered a reasonable
cost of business, this added cost might make sense. But why should an
individual have to incur this added cost to maintain their privacy? Imagine
if the burden and cost of preserving privacy always fell on the individual,
such as having to pay doctor's offices an added fee to keep your records
private or pay banks an extra fee not to make your credit card and other
info. available to the world? The default burden should be the other way
around, shouldn't it?
Suppose making such info. so public led to a stalking situation, which led
to some personal harm. Would the party who is harmed (from having their
personal info. made so public) have any legal redress against ICAAN, the
registration company, WHOIS or any other party? Just wondering. Wonder the
same for other possible ways someone might be harmed by this info. becoming
public. That is, is any of this regulated, e.g. what WHOIS or ICAAN or the
GoDaddy's can or can't do or require, such as extra payment to preserve
privacy, without a free opt-out?
In terms of trying to close the digital divide, requiring extra payments
simply to preserve one's privacy amounts to a very regressive, added fee,
and yet another financial disincentive for crossing over the digital divide
in this way. Anyone thinking about these things or regulating them at any
level of government or is this (still) entirely the wild west of cyber
space?
Randall
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Piwowar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] GoDaddy's registration agreement - speaking of priv
>Don't think
I should have to pay extra to buy a post office box address or these
privacy
add-ons, so will have to have a new address and maybe new phone # and take
my chances. Having an online presence via a domain name & website
shouldn't have to mean having personal info. made public unless one pays
extra to keep it private. Maybe I'll try 1600 Penn. Ave, D.C.
Gee. And I thought you were a good guy. Now you want to do the RIAA thing
with your name and submit fraudulent information to ICANN. Ho boy!
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