Well, personally for me, I use secret registration because I was tired of all the spam I got. Spammers scrape whois data for email addresses. I not trying to hide my identity on the web, I just don't like spam. I'm not some dark evil force. Cheers, Keith
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich Kulawiec" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 25 2018 09:18:54 AM Subject: Re: Is WHOIS going to go away? > On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 07:31:20PM +0000, Naslund, Steve wrote: > > I don't see why there should not be a way to know who is publishing data > on the Internet. > > +1 for this and what follows. Allow me, please, to piggyback on it > with a similar thought: > > With great power, comes great responsibility. > > There is no difference between someone who runs a global network or > a worldwide collection of datacenters, and someone who runs a tiny > web server or a single domain, other than scale. Both of them enjoy > extraordinary power, power that was difficult to imagine even for > people with reliable and accurate crystal balls, a quarter century ago. > They both operate a piece of the Internet that we share. > > And they are both responsible to each other -- whatever that means > in context. They have to be accountable, because when people are > unaccountable we get spam factories and network hijacking and DoS > attacks and all the other myriad crap that chews up enormous amounts > of time and money. > > This responsibility, this accountability isn't for everyone. And that's > fine. But anyone who isn't up for it *should not sign up to operate a > piece of the Internet*. There are a zillion other ways to participate > without becoming an operator. > > ---rsk >
