Right, because there's a pervasive belief -- since 98+% of the population of the net wasn't around in the world's-an-open-book days -- that privacy is a necessary prerequisite for being allowed to supply services on the net, not something they ought to pay extra for.
No disagreement on any of those points, but it doesn't get us beyond the "chicken & egg" that we're faced with re: Whois data.
Like I said earlier, my strong preference is to simply Whois 99% off...
-- Regards,
-rwr
"In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress."
- Charles W. Eliot (1834 - 1926)
