Hello This privacy issue is very interesting ebcause we are building a sytem which will allow for this (and we won;t be charging extra for it).
However (and its a big however) as soon as anything other than the "owner" of the domain name is put int the organisation field, the person who thinks they own the domain name no longer own it. This is not debateable, or something you can hold an opinion on, its a fact. Now supposing we (in our model) own the domain name and lease it to the registrant. All goes well until our business goes bust. The registrant is then up the creek without a paddle as they have no ownership rights over the domain name. There is also the issue of disputes with the "registrant". or what if the domain name is being used for spamming and we stop the person who paid us from using the domain name? What about illegal activities (we had someone selling drugs from a web site recently)? If we are the owners we are going to be implicated. Its not a question of resellers simply helping out poor wee registrants who need their privacy protected. Before we will offer this service we are going to spend vast amounts on getting the legalities hammered out. Its probably going to be impossible to implement legally without the "owner" signing paper contracts to keep us in the clear, and we will probably have to have the domain names owned by an offshore company in a jurisdiction where suing us is not going to be easy. You will all have to be extremely careful if you are going to offer this service. Regards Gordon Hudson Hostroute.com Ltd www.hostroute.net ------------------------------------------------
