Go Daddy has started offering Whois Records of this nature and they keep the 'true' whois information internally. Their reational is that the information needs to be available should a legal entity subpeona the records but users should haver the right to unlisted domain names. They claim to have done the legal research and have ICANN approval.
I am not an attorney but their claim makes sense to me. I am currently implementing a system similar. Where the whois info will read customer777 at TLD Systems, mailing address Box 777 at TLD Systems with the email address being [EMAIL PROTECTED] and that email address being forwarded to a mailbox that the domain owner has access to. In this way the Whois information is technically acccurate since the information can be used to contact the domain owner. And the owner can respond to snail mail and email. But their identity is protected. This works fine for com / net / org. I have not yet researched how well if works with us / info / biz nor has it been tested through the legal system. But we have all of the contact information locally should the need arise. Michael On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Paul Chvostek wrote: > > Over the last few days, I've noticed a number of domains with admin > contact records listing the name of the admin contact but a physical > address that is "c/o" the ISP's address. > > Presumably this practise is being recommended by some ISPs trying to > thwart the confusion generated by DROC and the like, but does anyone > have an opinion as to the legality of it? Especially for .CA domains? > > Does "care-of" on a contact record imply any sort of legal relationship > between the registrant and the listed company? > >
