[At-Large] Issue Report on Thick Whois

Karl Auerbach karl at cavebear.com
Wed Nov 23 04:59:52 UTC 2011


On 11/22/2011 07:21 PM, Bill Silverstein wrote:
>> On 11/22/2011 03:53 PM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
>>
>>>> Sonme of us believe that there ought not to be a domain name whois at
>>>> all;
>>
>>> That "us" is almost exclusively registrants, a set of vested interests
>>
>> That's a rather pejorative way to dismiss the privacy concerns of over
>> 100,000,000 registrants.
> These are registrant of domain names, domain names which by the current
> rules require that they provide accurate whois/ownership information.

These rules may be, and ought to be changed.  They are not carved in stone.

As I mentioned before, it is very sad that Facebook gives more respect
to privacy than does ICANN.

	--karl--



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