* Mike Lyon:
So the question I have is this: What actual security are these proxy companies providing to the end-user?
You can register domains without alerting your competition that you plan to provide a particular service (which could be guessed based on the domain name). Or a merger is coming up, and you want to quietly get the domain for the new company name. OTOH, there doesn't seem to be a legitimate long-term use for business purposes. (In my view, the secondary domain market is not legitimate---online advertisers keep it alive to artificially increase conversion rates, essentially defrauding brand owners who are structurally unable to cope with this situation.) -- Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99