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from the privacy-fading-away-like-a-sunset dept.
ICANN is currently considering [pdf] new rules that will affect Privacy & Proxy services. Opponents claim this to be yet another effort by big business to bypass due process, as ICANN is being lobbied to make private registrations unlawful for "commercial" use. As it has been argued effectively in the courts that any website with advertisements is commercial in nature, opponents say this can strip private registrations from any personal website or blog that funds itself by ads. Proponents of new rule complain that P/P services are too often slow to respond, to respond at all, and determining the proper entity for legal action is too difficult. Proponents ask that personally identifiable information be disclosed upon written demand to ICANN, without a court order required, with only ICANN ostensibly determining if the written demand is correct, lawful for all parties, and suitable grounds for bypassing due process in the domain holder's country.
Namecheap.com, the EFF, and Fight For The Future currently have a campaign going to call and write into ICANN before the deadline for public comments, on July 7, 2015. Of course, you can call them directly (busy signal all day) at their LA offices - +1-310-301-5800 to make a comment, or email them directly at comments-ppsai-initial-05may15@icann.org and policy-staff@icann.org
ICANN is currently only seeking comment, and is unable to come to a consensus on this issue yet. Assuming ICANN does eliminate P/P for everyone, we are left with the Distortion part of Avoid-Distort-Block-Break.
How would Soylentils respond to the lack of private registrations?
Original Submission
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @03:24PM
The original idea was that there should be some way to contact owners of registered domains.
If the owners wanted that, they could just put that on their websites. And you don't need their full names merely to contact them. This will be garbage, and copyright thugs will love this.
I say get rid of the requirement to provide contact details entirely.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday June 27 2015, @12:32AM
And the website could be down so you need to contact them by other means.
(Score: 1) by Nollij on Saturday June 27 2015, @07:45AM
Not all domains are used for a public website. Some are strictly used for e-mail, or other (non-HTTP) services.
There are many companies that buy domain names, exclusively for internal use (used only by employees, to access internal resources, completely separate from a public-facing website)