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For me, wanting presentation in internet and yet wanting to be anonymous is absurd. People have legitimate needs to contact domain owner, spam/scam issues for

by ZWoz 8y ago

For me, wanting presentation in internet and yet wanting to be anonymous is absurd. People have legitimate needs to contact domain owner, spam/scam issues for example. Most importantly though, that is old, working model and nobody forced into this. To me those "I want change" types remind people, who move into new neighbourhood and then complain about things that have been always there. Instead destroying, there should be more building: don't change working thing, make new and better (with blackjack, if I are allowed Futurama reference :) )

wafflebear 8y ago
You must live in a very safe country if you think it's reasonable to post your home address on the internet for all to see.
- onli 8y ago
  I do live in a very safe country, but it still felt very bad when I had to do that. The risks are enormous in every country in the world.
tscs37 8y ago
Regarding the first part of your comment; there are perfectly legit reasons you might not want your full contact details published on a database accessible to the wider public. Just think of political dissidents in other countries or people at risk of being doxxed for various reasons or simply not wanting that information to be public at all. Regarding the second part, it's not viable to "make new and better". There is new and maybe better but nobody is using it. The ICANN has a quasi-monopoly on governing the DNS registration rules on the internet. It's like saying that if we don't like Facebook we should switch to Diaspora. As much as I'd like to, Diaspora doesn't have the network of Facebook or the reach which is an immediate nogo for a lot of people. Not recognizing that is simply ignoring the reality of many people's lives.
- ZWoz 8y ago
  Thanks for your levelheaded comment! Sadly, I can't discuss more, because this is clearly emotional topic, if I look into other comments. Most posters here are young developers, so personal approach is more geared towards privacy. If you are system administrator, maybe old UNIX greybeard, then you have different set of problems, communication and open community is then more important. I can't point out, why, but I feel that RFC2468 [0] is somewhat relevant here (as sentiment, not personal experience). ------------- [0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2468 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2468
  - hueving 8y ago
    I'm old and I care about privacy. Being able to contact a domain owner has nothing to do with public listings of their physical addresses. An email address is more than enough for an abuse contact.

by ZWoz 8y ago

wafflebear 8y ago

You must live in a very safe country if you think it's reasonable to post your home address on the internet for all to see.

onli 8y ago
I do live in a very safe country, but it still felt very bad when I had to do that. The risks are enormous in every country in the world.

tscs37 8y ago

Regarding the first part of your comment; there are perfectly legit reasons you might not want your full contact details published on a database accessible to the wider public. Just think of political dissidents in other countries or people at risk of being doxxed for various reasons or simply not wanting that information to be public at all. Regarding the second part, it's not viable to "make new and better". There is new and maybe better but nobody is using it. The ICANN has a quasi-monopoly on governing the DNS registration rules on the internet. It's like saying that if we don't like Facebook we should switch to Diaspora. As much as I'd like to, Diaspora doesn't have the network of Facebook or the reach which is an immediate nogo for a lot of people. Not recognizing that is simply ignoring the reality of many people's lives.

ZWoz 8y ago
Thanks for your levelheaded comment! Sadly, I can't discuss more, because this is clearly emotional topic, if I look into other comments. Most posters here are young developers, so personal approach is more geared towards privacy. If you are system administrator, maybe old UNIX greybeard, then you have different set of problems, communication and open community is then more important. I can't point out, why, but I feel that RFC2468 [0] is somewhat relevant here (as sentiment, not personal experience). ------------- [0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2468 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2468
- hueving 8y ago
  I'm old and I care about privacy. Being able to contact a domain owner has nothing to do with public listings of their physical addresses. An email address is more than enough for an abuse contact.