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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