[At-Large] Issue Report on Thick Whois

Karl Auerbach karl at cavebear.com
Thu Nov 24 23:55:15 UTC 2011


On 11/24/2011 07:59 AM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:

> ... that real estate
> ownership in most countries is public information.

That is an urban legend.

It is easy, and in fact quite common, for the actual beneficial
ownership of land to be masked.

For example, near where I live a beach - Martin's Beach - has been
acquired and even governmental bodies are having trouble finding out who
the real owner is.

	--karl--



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