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For legitimate use cases - I think the .us domain was doomed when the US government forbid using anonymizing proxies for the domain registrant’s contact informa
by tacticalturtle 3y ago
For legitimate use cases - I think the .us domain was doomed when the US government forbid using anonymizing proxies for the domain registrant’s contact information.
If you register one - you need to provide complete contact information, and that will be publicly available via Whois.
I still get spam calls offering “Web Design” services for the .us domain I naively bought 8 year ago, even though it’s 7 years expired.
- everybodyknows 3y agoApparently at least this problem is being addressed by the NTIA: > The NTIA recently published a proposal that would allow GoDaddy to redact registrant data from WHOIS registration records. The current charter for .US specifies that all .US registration records be public.
- tacticalturtle 3y agoYes - Contrary to the quoted source in the piece, this is a good thing. Clearly if all this fraud exists with the requirement in place - it’s not an effective prevention measure.