[At-Large] Issue Report on Thick Whois

[Lutz Donnerhacke]

* Alan Greenberg wrote:
> Thanks. Regarding proxy registrations, some people read the current 
> contracts as not allowing them, but that is moot at this point, since 
> they have been going on for a long time now and ICANN has never tried 
> to stop them. Certainly for .net and .com, it is far too late to put 
> the genie back in the bottle. So no change from thin to thick whois 
> is going to alter the current situation. Or at least, that is how I read it.

It's a matter of interpretation. Proxies "replace" the Domain owner, so they
*are* the domain holder in the contract model of ICANN. OTOH privacy
services hide some of the required records in the WHOIS data. Lacking a
formal definition within ICANN, privacy services produce incorrect entries.