That just sounds like a minor change to fix this, a bug. No need to burn down the house to kill a mosquito.
And my suggestion to move the publicly visible WHOIS information into the DNS and thus completely under the domain owner's control would fix this with minimal effort from the registrant. I tend to doubt tho that this is a significant reason for the proposed changes. On April 20, 2018 at 16:20 [email protected] (Rubens Kuhl) wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 4:10 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On April 20, 2018 at 12:03 [email protected] (Tei) wrote: > > Maybe a good balance for whois is to include organization information > > so I know where a website is hosted, but not personal information, so > > I can't show in their house and steal their dog. > > > > I feel uneasy about having my phone available to literally everyone on > > the internet. > > There are various privacy options available when one registers a > domain, generally a matter of checking a box and usually free. > > > Those privacy options work until one wants to transfer a domain to a > different > registrar. Almost always that will imply in a brief removal of privacy, > during > which an adversary (either a nation-state or some Sideshow Bob-type wacko) > will > learn the true identity of the domain holder. > > > Rubens > > > -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | [email protected] | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo*
