Robert L Mathews wrote:
The existence of a WHOIS service that reveals personal contact details for each domain holder is purely due to historical accident. Every domain holder I have talked to about it is appalled by its existence.Hmph.
You mean that, as a citizen of the net, I have no right to contact the owner of an Internet-connected site about abuse coming from their site immediately and via all possible contact methods -- which is, after all, the real reason for the WHOIS contact info? You mean I should have to go through some intermediary like their registrar?
Nonsense.
Crack down on abuse, and leave those of us who need the information free to have it. I think it's fine that a public point of contact is the price of Internet citizenship -- we never neded all of those personalized domains anyway.
Then again, I don't make any money off what should still be a zero-cost service -- especially since it is actually hundreds of times easier and cheaper to register a domain than it was when it was free.
