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To be replaced with a system providing a standardized method to give law enforcement easier "secure access" to your redacted personal information.
by vekatimest 2y ago
To be replaced with a system providing a standardized method to give law enforcement easier "secure access" to your redacted personal information.
- dawnerd 2y agoWait, people use real information?
- riffic 2y agothat's grounds for cancellation of a domain sooooo.....
- kelnos 2y agoI do. The terms of the domain registration say that providing incorrect information can result in revocation of the registration. Not really worth the risk, IMO, for any domain I actually care about.
- Aachen 2y agoNot just that, but also if the registrar turns out to be fraudulent or someone convinces your registrar to transfer the domain (scam the support team), or they get your account password and transfer the domain that way (data leak elsewhere, password reset with a sim swap, you name it)... there are so many ways you can have "technical difficulties", but in the end: you're the one with an ID card that has your name on it. You can take the TLD to court and have them give you back the domain that was legally purchased in your name Except if it's not in your name So yep, as you say: make this decision (fake or real information) knowing the risks involved in not legally owning it
- wmf 2y agoWe have ownership records for real estate for a reason. Domains need some level of accountability.
- idle_zealot 2y agoI'm not sure this follows. You're allowed to publish, say, a book or pamphlet without signing it with your legal name and address. So is a website more like a book, or a building?
- callc 2y agoSomewhere in the middle IMO. If the domain name is desirable it looks more like a building, because people generally care about who owns the land when it is not getting put to good use. Websites are more like books when they have a domain no else else cares about.
- idle_zealot 2y agoSo, maybe require official ID/address/contact info for any domain over a certain price? Or for all domains under a certain character count, maybe, which could vary for TLD.
- CydeWeys 2y agoHow do you determine the value of a domain name? Also there's nothing particularly valuable for most short domain name strings except on .com. It's generic words that tend to be valuable, not a short random string.
- greyface- 2y agoDomains point to IPs, and IPs already have subpoenable ownership records at RIRs. In the real estate metaphor: we have property ownership records, but we don't have records of every rental tenancy.
- RIMR 2y agoThis is completely untrue. https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/court-rules-internet-ip-addresses-are-not-people/ https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/court-rules...
- imoreno 2y ago"Only law enforcement" is still better than "everyone".
- kelnos 2y agoI disagree. Law enforcement already abuses many data sources they have private access to, and use asymmetric information to their advantage.
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