What makes this complex is that there is ICANN the company and the ICANN community and registrars that offer anonymising service that are not supported by the c

What makes this complex is that there is ICANN the company and the ICANN community and registrars that offer anonymising service that are not supported by the community. (Note there is plenty to complain about how ICANN or the community functions.) For a lot of reasons, it is nice to know who owns a domain and privacy is just an annoying detail. So it is long standing practice that WHOIS information has to be accurate. In theory, the ICANN community can change this. In practice I doubt you would get consensus on that. That's rules you have to deal with and ICANN (the company) is tasked with enforcing those rules. Knowing that ICANN enforces these rules, it doesn't make sense for a registry to make random changes to the WHOIS of a domain. If there should be any blame, if a registrar is violating community principles as a service, then be way more careful. Or as a domain holder, if you want to violate community principles don't complain if that backfires.