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Original post by submitnews@thewhir.com (Web Hosting’s Premier Daily News) and software by Elliott Back

I’ve never really understood the complaint.

My employers (webhosting) have long registered domains names in their name for clients who want their domain name registered that way. As long as the details get a “responsible person”, I don’t think anyone cares. Indeed I think it is far more useful that the domain admin contact is a web host contact address. Since someone will react the same day to a report of abuse.

So I don’t understand the privacy issue, a private registration will always cost more to operate, people can pay to get such a registration already.

I can understand the opposite view point, that by using privacy services it can make it harder to deal with abuse, but I don’t see that as a compelling argument to prohibit anonymous registrations.

So I don’t see what is broken here - or am I missing something? Reply

Original post by submitnews@thewhir.com (Web Hosting’s Premier Daily News) and software by Elliott Back

Original post by submitnews@thewhir.com (Web Hosting’s Premier Daily News) and software by Elliott Back

Original post by submitnews@thewhir.com (Web Hosting’s Premier Daily News) and software by Elliott Back

Even interestingly faked whois has patterns in it that turn out to be very useful indeed.

I have a feeling we are not going to see much consensus on this, for the next several ICANN meetings.

This is going to be a spectacularly long “sunset” Reply

Original post by submitnews@thewhir.com (Web Hosting’s Premier Daily News) and software by Elliott Back

Jaysen,

Thanks for pointing out the “newness” of domain names, another erroneous argument, which I missed in my post.

Below are three plausible interpretations of newness and the associated errors:
1. Not enough data to conduct meaningful statistical tests. Not true, as noted in the post.

2. Enough data, but it is pure noise, i.e., no statistically significant patterns in the data. Not true, as noted in the post, statistical data mining techniques suggest otherwise.

3. A domain name’s best use is not yet established. To a certain degree this is true, as in a large number of inventions including the birth of the PC and fax, to name just a few. For domain names, the public discourse includes development, e-commerce, and leasing as use options. Nevertheless, if an entrepreneur finds a new value-adding use, it does not imply that a previously valid appraisal was meaningless at the time it was conducted. Reply

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RTE.ie

Personal .ie domain names available RTE.ie, Ireland - 3 hours ago Rules governing the .ie Internet domain have been relaxed so individuals can register their own names for the first time. Until now .ie addresses have been …

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Profy

Facebook to speak Chinese with .cn domain name Reuters - Oct 31, 2007 The ".cn" suffix is commonly used for Chinese domain names. A message left on Facebook's media enquiries voicemail went unanswered. … .cn domain in demand by multinationals and domestic companies - CNNIC Interfax.cn (subscription) all 22 news articles

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