At 1/9/04 2:54 PM, Roger B.A. Klorese wrote: >It's highly unlikely with our client base -- we don't register any >commercial or commercial-likely domains.
Fair enough... but I'm still wondering what you would do if you were actually sued based on a client's activity. Would you keep the client's identity private, even if it meant your organization would be sued out of existence? For a for-profit business, the answer is obviously that we can't allow that to happen. So we end up with the compromise where we reveal the person's actual identity in the event of actual, or perhaps even threatened, legal action, just like Domains by Proxy. I just wouldn't have the nerve to charge an extra $10 a year for it. I realize that QueerNet's goals are different than what most people who are concerned about WHOIS privacy want, of course. Most of my customers would probably be pleased with a modicum of privacy to prevent idiot marketers from bothering them, and aren't worried about death squads. But some inevitably will have moer serious concerns (one person asked us to remove his name from the WHOIS because he was a witness to a murder and was in hiding after he testified against the killer -- we complied). Of course, such people could simply use a fake name and pay with a money order, and if they did it competently, we would never know (although we do screen out people providing obviously bogus information; we don't allow people to sign up as "Mickey Mouse", simply because they're usually going to cause problems for us anyway). -- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies http://www.tigertech.net/ "I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -- Charles Babbage
