June 25, 2003

Privacy in Domain Name Registration

Filed under: phone — Wendy @ 8:52 am

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.

6 Comments

  1. Anonymous domain name registry?

    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…

    Trackback by circle.ch weblog — July 2, 2003 @ 4:46 am

  2. Great comments guys. Peter FDA

    Comment by Peter — November 11, 2003 @ 12:26 am

  3. Hi,

    this already exists at http://www.katzglobal.com

    Check it out…

    thanks

    Scott

    Comment by Scott Siebold — January 21, 2004 @ 12:24 pm

  4. 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!

    Comment by Sal — January 30, 2004 @ 3:15 pm

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

    Comment by John — March 11, 2004 @ 1:35 pm

  6. Googl

    Comment by Googl — May 24, 2004 @ 4:20 am

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