That just sounds like a minor change to fix this, a bug. No need to burn down the house to kill a mosquito. And my suggestion to move the publicly visible WHOIS information into the DNS and thus completely under the domain owner's control would fix this with minimal effort from the registrant. I tend to doubt tho that this is a significant reason for the proposed changes. On April 20, 2018 at 16:20 rubensk@gmail.com (Rubens Kuhl) wrote:
On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 4:10 PM, <bzs@theworld.com> wrote:
On April 20, 2018 at 12:03 oscar.vives@gmail.com (Tei) wrote: > Maybe a good balance for whois is to include organization information > so I know where a website is hosted, but not personal information, so > I can't show in their house and steal their dog. > > I feel uneasy about having my phone available to literally everyone on > the internet.
There are various privacy options available when one registers a domain, generally a matter of checking a box and usually free.
Those privacy options work until one wants to transfer a domain to a different registrar. Almost always that will imply in a brief removal of privacy, during which an adversary (either a nation-state or some Sideshow Bob-type wacko) will learn the true identity of the domain holder.
Rubens
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