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That was my original question. I had no idea one could register a domain name without providing identification.

• salawat 6y ago
  Contrary to popular belief, not everyone is on board with systems aiming to create identifiers that map 1:1 with people. That's a very politically driven philosophy generally intended to enforce a means of auditability or control. The thing that makes it seemingly inevitable to give up identifying information as part of financial transactions is the nature of Credit/Payment processing/Anti-Money Laundering regulations enforcing a KYC (Know-Your-Customer) component to being a legally operating financial transaction processor. Do note, this audit trail creation is a big portion of the push to obviate and disincentivise cash transactions. The thinking goes, if you can only use the financial system by identifying your endpoints, there should be a clear audit trail if anything hinky is going on. Unfortunately, the much less well publicized corollary to that is that suddenly payment processors become an effective population scale control mechanism. This should hopefully cause discomfort on further reflection, but to each their own.