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Why do you think privacy should be easier for domain owners? Shouldn't it instead be easy for a visitor to find out who owns the domain and is responsible (cont
by andreasley 9y ago
Why do you think privacy should be easier for domain owners? Shouldn't it instead be easy for a visitor to find out who owns the domain and is responsible (content, technical or legal) for a certain site?
- amelius 9y agoAlso think about online shops which turn out to be scams. But perhaps there should be a possibility to remain anonymous (and the browser informing the user that this is the case).
- chrisper 9y agoNot everyone needs to know my home address. Especially not for a domain I use for emails. Way too many weird people out there.
- always_good 9y agoAlso, any content that people could take issue with. Any hobbies I might have that I wouldn't share on facebook. This is why I lie in my whois data, to the horror of the goody two-shoes on HN I'm sure. The whois data is a great place to start a social engineering hack. The address or any past address is often used for identity.
- megous 9y agoI bought an internet domain in order for people to be able to contact me via some stable handle on the internet, that only I control. That's all. I don't want my phone, my home address, my all other domains, etc. to be easilly accessible for no reason whatsoever by nosy types. Also your question may apply to the other end too. Shouldn't it be easy for an owner of the server to find out who is behind an IP address that is connecting to his server - and I mean easy access to his/her phone number, home address and a complete history of those, too? It's easy to concot legal, technical and content reasons why this should be.