If you register a corp out of Nevada, the only person who gets to know the names of the owners is the company lawyer unless someone shows up with a warrant. It costs around $1,200 if I remember correctly. So I can spin up a legit looking company and put that info into whois and you essentially end up with useless info unless you can convince a court to issue a warrant. So why are you proposing that I can't run my *personal* "I strongly believe in {insert emotionally-charged issue} site" without letting psychos know exactly where I live? -A On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 10:16 AM Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org> wrote:
On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 02:21:59PM +0000, Filip Hruska wrote:
EURID (.eu) WHOIS already works on a basis that no information about the registrant is available via standard WHOIS. In order to get any useful information you have to go to https://whois.eurid.eu and make a request there.
Seems like a reasonable solution.
It's not. All WHOIS information should be completely available with no limits, no restrictions, in bulk form to everyone -- so that everyone running every operation is identifiable to their peers and thus accountable to their peers. I understand that some people don't want to be exposed to that, and that's fine: but then they shouldn't be running an Internet-connected operation.
The only people served by restriction on WHOIS availability are abusers and attackers, and the entities (e.g., registrars) who profit from them.
---rsk