On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:26:00 +1300, Mark Foster said: > > > I'm unsure how appropriate it is to post anything more specific in the > > open forum, but i've never seen this before. Whats the deal with hiding a > > domain name owners true identity? > > Happens all the time.. *snip* > > (They're not *all* bad, evill and black-hat - as far as I can tell, GoDaddy > provides a similar service - but if you end up calling them because there's a > problem, they're not at all amused - and take their ire out on the problem > user) > > Further discussion is probably better done on [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Thanks to those who've responded both on and off list - it seems the rules are different on your side of the world. I'll go the other way (as I usually do) and chase the IPs involved (I usually pursue both out of curiosity, but had not seen the aforementioned whois output before). My thanks - can close this thread now before I get moderated. :) Mark.