----- Original Message ----- From: "Ross Wm. Rader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Roger B.A. Klorese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "'Robert L Mathews'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 11:45 PM Subject: Re: Network Solutions Private Registration
> On 1/9/2004 5:55 PM Roger B.A. Klorese noted that: > > >>The registrars that I'm aware of that offer a privacy option > >>like this > >>simply roll over on the registrant. Sort of defeats the purpose of a > >>blind registration, but it prevents nasty legal fees from piling up. The biggest problem is lack of uniformity: CNO, Biz Info do not permit obfusaction of whois records. .uk allows private individuals to opt out of the whois but the organisation field still gets listed. .nu has never had registrant info in the whois (not during the last 3 years anyway). .uk.com (and all centralnic domains) allow domains to be listed as registrant c/o registrar Therefore there is some confusion. In the UK market with people being used to being allowed to opt out of the whois we geta lot of confusion when they register .com's I have been thinking about offering a privacy option and there are two ways of doing it that I can see: 1. Do it as registrant c/o our business. This would mean that the registrant was still listed in the organisation field and would still be the legal owner, we would merely be acting as a mailing address, phone number and email drop box. 2. Do it the Godaddy way. This would mean that we assumed all legal obligations relating to the domain name. As I see it this is like using your customers use your IP addresses. We have had more than one nasty violent incident when people have turned up thinking that Jo Bloggs company was at "Hostroute Towers" because they have done a sam spade lookup on Jo Bloggs IP address. So there is an educational aspect to this. If we keep things as they are we need to educate customers as to why their details need to be available and point out that with rights come responsibilities. If we move to keeping the info private then we need to educate people that doing a whois lookup is not accurate enough to send two guys round with baseball bats to attack the registrant. Either way, its a no win situation while some registries allow opt out and some don't. Regards Gordon Hudson Hostroute.com Ltd www.hostroute.net ------------------------------------------------
