[geeks] hiding DNS information

[der Mouse]

>> I am a very strong believer that such "secret registrations"
>> (WHOIS-info-blinded) are abusive, that if you care that much about
>> keeping your information private the correct thing to do is to not
>> register domains.

> I don't follow that at all.

> I have made a lot of "things" public which are "mine" but do not give
> away my personal information.  Why should a domain be any different?

For basically the same reason owning land is: you are being granted a
slice of a finite public resource and need to be accountable for it.

> Anyone who needs to interact with me about DNS information can.

Then your information _is_ available.  (Not all of it, I daresay, but
enough of it.)

As long as your domain shows a postal address that will reach you when
put on the front of an envelope, I don't care about any other postal
addresses that may be relevant to you.

As long as your domain shows a phone number that will reach you, I
don't care about any other phone numbers you may have.

As long as your domain shows an email address that will reach you, I
don't care how many forwarders it goes through or what other addresses
you may have.

Yes, I expect to get your personal information (well, for a personal
domain; for an organizational domain, the organization's information).
But this is only in the sense that contact information that reaches you
equates to personal information; whether it bears any relation to any
other information you may think of as personal information is
irrelevant.

But that's not what all the whois-cloaking crap I've seen does.  The
few I've looked into even a little say outright they will discard most
paper mail without even passing it alonjg to the registrant, and the
email addresses go straight to ignorebots; either one should be grounds
for summary revocation of the domain registration.  If you can find one
that actually works, great, but I'm not holding my breath.

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