It sounds to me like the WHOIS data is useful to their Internet sleuthing. I have no doubt that it is. Private investigators in the real world would also have

It sounds to me like the WHOIS data is useful to their Internet sleuthing. I have no doubt that it is. Private investigators in the real world would also have an easier time if we replaced license plates with the owner's full contact information. But we don't. Yes it's a car analogy.