Internet privacy

Thu Oct 2 21:10:04 UTC 2003

Whatever responsibile third party wants to provide this service already
can.  There is no need for any changes.  The changes proposed by Verisign
and the things they are currently promoting do not fall within that.

Owen

--On Thursday, October 2, 2003 3:07 PM -0600 Lyndon Nerenberg 
<lyndon at orthanc.ab.ca> wrote:

>
>> 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.
>
> That would depend on the terms of the contract between you and the
> registrar. But I do agree that this would be better served by a neutral
> third party (who would probably charge a lot less than a lawyer would).
>
> No matter who you go with for the service, read the fine print before you
> sign on the line ...
>
> --lyndon
>