> And to John's objection to privacy for companies in another message, your > outlook is unrealistic. It's often very important to secure names in advance > for a project that hasn't been publicly announced (because once it's > announced the speculators will swoop in). Not being able to mask ownership > information for these domains, prior to the announcement, would be a serious > business risk, and serve to stifle innovation around domain names.
Not seeing it. Company names in the US are public record with the state that they're registered. Want to trademark that business name in the US? That becomes part of the public record, too. Companies often speculatively register domains, even speculatively submit trademark applications today and most of them seem to do just fine without having to eliminate or restrict WHOIS. Don't want it registered to the main company? Register it to one of your other LLCs. Companies regularly do this today to obfuscate ownership in other contexts. I see ad agencies register domains for clients today. Nobody's stopping this or trying to stop this. If you're a company registered in a US state, the company name, registered agent, and incorporation info are public record. If you are a company registering a domain name on the internet, I think that registration information for that domain name should be at least as public. -- Al Iverson www.aliverson.com (312)725-0130 _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
