> some domain and number holders have no incorperated body: they hold the resource as a private individual whois has been useful to me in the past for finding

> some domain and number holders have no incorperated body: they hold the resource as a private individual whois has been useful to me in the past for finding out whether a DNS name is held by the foundation/company/trust/whatever or if it's held by a private individual who set up the foundation/trust/whatever. When a whois lookup shows a certain private individual listed as owner, admin, and tech contact for some DNS name, then I can know the foundation is a sham created to make it look like the open source product is community controlled, when in fact it's really just one narcissist pulling the strings. I say keep the whois service as is.