[63287] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet privacy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Levine)
Thu Oct 2 17:11:29 2003
In-Reply-To: <2147483647.1065103313@imac-en0.delong.sj.ca.us>
From: Matt Levine <matt@deliver3.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 17:09:24 -0400
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Oct 2, 2003, at 5:01 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> <snip>
> I think this would be a very bad thing. If some independent
> organization
> wants to provide that service, fine. Allowing registrars to provide it
> allows for the possibility of a conflict of interest if any policies
> ever
> come to fruition to allow revocation of resources for bad contact data.
>
> Think about it, if you allow the registrar (who has the ultimate
> obligation
> to pull the domain) to instead obscure their contact for a fee, then,
> you
> have essentially eliminated any such protection.
Godaddy seems to be offering this service already -
http://www.domainsbyproxy.com/
>
> Owen
>
>
>
>
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Matt Levine <matt@deliver3.com>
"The Trouble with doing anything right the first time is that nobody
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