LuvBrrdz — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 03:48:16 +0000

I think the UK has it set up properly. I simply posted this as information to those who don't know about it. For those who don't mind this privacy issue, they can skip over it. No anger here. I mind so I signed. I also emailed my representatives. I'm sure others mind as well, and it's up to them to fight for privacy or not.

Yes, the petition includes names, states & comments. Not home addresses. I think there's a bit of a difference there. Losing privacy in any capacity is certainly no joke. The person who constructed the petition site is the president (owner) of GoDaddy.Com. You can read what he wrote about it on his weblog:
http://www.bobparsons.com/NTIAprivacyeliminationtricksexplainedThedocumenttrailt.html

Greg K — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:37:50 +0000

Maybe I should start a new service. You want a .us, I register it with my company information for $5 a year for you. Of course there will a contract in place that prevents me from screwing you, (ie. it will always point to the DNS you decide upon, and at anytime you can cencel and my company will transfer the registration back to your personal information).

Wonder how that would work. Of course, I've never registered a .US domain, not sure what limitations there are on getting one.

OH MY!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA I just followed the link to sign the petition! Now I see this thing is all a big joke, like http://www.dhmo.org/

Yeah, a goverment agency is going to seriously accept a petition with unverifiable information on it

Quote: Please note: Only your name, state, and comments will be published as part of the petition.

And the site itself (http://www.americansdeserveprivacy.com/view.php) which is names and locations of people who want their privacy protected but let it be publically displayed on this site.... What does this site do with the other personal information they collect that isn't part of the petition???

-Greg

andy206uk — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 14:23:57 +0000

We have a system in the UK where businesses *have* to have their details listed on the whois server but people registering domain names for themselves (ie "personal domains") can opt out of appearing on the whois.

I think that's a fair choice. This decision that has been made for .us sucks

LuvBrrdz — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 22:15:51 +0000

I understand what you're saying, but I got my .US domains when privacy was enabled, and now this bonehead decision is affecting me. I don't want to have to give up my web addresses now that I've established them because of this issue. That's just not right. As I said, I know that .US domains are in the minority, but it's still a privacy issue. I do have my right to privacy, and I shouldn't have to give up what I already have to keep privacy. See?

For those who feel the same as I do about this specific issue, or the privacy issue in general, I'm putting the word out so they have the opportunity to voice their objections and opinions. For those who don't care, that's fine by me. I'm not trying to sway people's opinion on the matter, but inform people who may care about their privacy.

Your right. Obviously this is being discussed elsewhere, and there are articles elsewhere that the site I quoted has linked to. I agree that some of their method of delivery is a bit overboard. But the bottom line is privacy, as I've mentioned enough now.

mairving — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:21:33 +0000

Just a couple of things.
One private domains themselves really haven't been available for very long anyway. In the past you had no choice but to enter the information in the public domain.

Two I doubt if this will change for any of the .org, .com, .net domains which account for most of the domains in the US.

The third thing is that this quote listed in your post contains some truth but a lot of malarky to get people riled up. No telling how many times the word predator was used. It is also not true when it says this:

Quote: You won't find any information about the NTIA decision by searching the Internet

This has been all over the place. I have seen it on news sites, forums like this one, emails from registrars like GoDaddy and other places.

All this decision means is that if you want a private domain, you can't use the .us ones, not really anything else. Personal opinion is that is was a bonehead decision with no reasoning behind.