June 25, 2003
Privacy in Domain Name Registration

Karl Auerbach is here in Montreal, adding notes on WHOIS and privacy to his CaveBear Blog. I particularly appreciate his proposal to establish a truly anonymous domain name registration service, capturing only technically relevant data:

I hope to run an experiment soon in which people can register names anonymously and without the retention of any contact information whatsoever - control of a name would be in the form of a digital certificate, a kind of bearer bond.

Thomas Roessler, also here and blogging many of the sessions, shares concern over privacy in WHOIS records, and busts a few strawmen.

Posted by Wendy at June 25, 2003 08:52 AM | TrackBack
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Great comments guys. Peter FDA

Posted by: Peter on November 11, 2003 12:26 AM

Hi,

this already exists at www.katzglobal.com

Check it out...

thanks

Scott

Posted by: Scott Siebold on January 21, 2004 12:24 PM

See film "Runaway Jury". Until the powerful elite stop using oppressive and underhanded methods, and basically hijacking democracy in a quiet way, then anonymity is necessary.

Consider the Blacklist in Hollywood in the 40's and 50's.

Consider US governing and strategies both at home and abroad (highly imperialistic, I'd say).

Freedom, grassroots autonomy, integrity, ethics...holistic solutions are needed.

Thanks for letting me spout!

Posted by: Sal on January 30, 2004 03:15 PM

Try http://www.zentek-international.com/domain/

Posted by: John on March 11, 2004 01:35 PM
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Excerpt: Having a go with WHOIS on a dot com domain for instance, shows up as much information on a registration entry as you would like (address, name, phone etc.). Wendy Seltzer [1] points out some proposal from Karl Auerbach to have a more restricted privacy...
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CaveBear Blog -- cavebear.com
blogging many of the sessions -- log.does-not-exist.org
busts a few strawmen -- log.does-not-exist.org