Re: (OT) Anonymous Domain Registration?

As a person who works for a company that has to investigate people behind domains that do evil things (such as sell pharmaceuticals illegally), I hate domain registrars that don't provide any actual content about the registrant. I'm sure there are perfectly reasonable uses for such registrars, but when our database is full of useless WHOIS reports, I get angry.

Jeff japhy Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and perl hacker
How can we ever be the sold short or the cheated, we who for every service have long ago been overpaid? ~~ Meister Eckhart

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Re^2: (OT) Anonymous Domain Registration? by punch_card_don (Curate) on Jan 25, 2006 at 15:20 UTC
Like a 13 year old wants to set up a web site and the parents don't want the kid's home address known to the world of slimeballs out there? Like a women's shelter wants to have an informational website without advertising to the world's whackos where to send the letter bombs? Like a Chinese or Iranian citizen wants to set up a pro-democracy, pro-capitalist website without giving the goon squads directions to their house? You mean reasons like that? Question was poorly expressed, apparently. NOT, "do you like their politics?". I'm asking, are they reliable; are there known problems using one; any to avoid; any recommendations. Thanks. Forget that fear of gravity, Get a little savagery in your life.	[reply]
Re^3: (OT) Anonymous Domain Registration? by japhy (Canon) on Jan 25, 2006 at 15:33 UTC
Clearly, those are perfectly reasonable situations for using anonymous domain registration. My company deals with internet criminals. I apologize for my political rant. I have no personal experience using an anonymous registrar (or any registrar, since I don't own any domains). Jeff `japhy` Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and `perl` hacker How can we ever be the sold short or the cheated, we who for every service have long ago been overpaid? ~~ Meister Eckhart	[reply]