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Does using a registered agent service fulfill the requirements of California law? If so then I fail to see how that's really different from whois privacy. I mea

by gaadd33 11y ago

Does using a registered agent service fulfill the requirements of California law? If so then I fail to see how that's really different from whois privacy. I mean most corporations have the same address: 1209 North Orange Street, Wilmington, DE

Animats 11y ago
You can find out who's behind a corporation, and you can sue them as a corporation. That's quite different from giving a phony address. You can also tell if many domains belong to the same corporation. While you can create multiple corporations, it costs money and you have to file tax returns for each of them. So it's only done when it makes economic sense. Enom, the bulk domain registrar, does that; they have Enom, Enom2, Enom3, ... Enom1035.[1] That's because when a domain drops, the registrar which can pick it up first rotates through the list of registrars. Having lots of "registrars" gives them a big fraction of dropped domains. [1] https://www.icann.org/registrar-reports/accreditation-qualified-list.html https://www.icann.org/registrar-reports/accreditation-qualif...
- gaadd33 11y ago
  You can find out who's behind a corporation There's a lot of people who would love to know that trick. AFAIK there's no public disclosure of ownership of a corporation. In any case, I thought whois privacy services were real addresses which could have mail/legal proceedings directed to them. I'm surprised to learn that they are all phony addresses. Thanks for teaching me something.
  - contingencies 11y ago
    AFAIK there's no public disclosure of ownership of a corporation. Many jurisdictions allow you to query this information online as well as other significant information about any type of registered organization, not just corporations. I know for instance this is the case in Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand, etc.
    - gaadd33 11y ago
      Really? That's pretty cool. I always thought that Hong Kong at least had the same transparency issues that the US and UK have with corporations and trusts. Generally it's that the people nominated as directors or who are named in public filings are lawyers or other corporations and not the actual owners.

by gaadd33 11y ago

Animats 11y ago

You can find out who's behind a corporation, and you can sue them as a corporation. That's quite different from giving a phony address. You can also tell if many domains belong to the same corporation. While you can create multiple corporations, it costs money and you have to file tax returns for each of them. So it's only done when it makes economic sense. Enom, the bulk domain registrar, does that; they have Enom, Enom2, Enom3, ... Enom1035.[1] That's because when a domain drops, the registrar which can pick it up first rotates through the list of registrars. Having lots of "registrars" gives them a big fraction of dropped domains. [1] https://www.icann.org/registrar-reports/accreditation-qualified-list.html https://www.icann.org/registrar-reports/accreditation-qualif...

gaadd33 11y ago
You can find out who's behind a corporation There's a lot of people who would love to know that trick. AFAIK there's no public disclosure of ownership of a corporation. In any case, I thought whois privacy services were real addresses which could have mail/legal proceedings directed to them. I'm surprised to learn that they are all phony addresses. Thanks for teaching me something.
- contingencies 11y ago
  AFAIK there's no public disclosure of ownership of a corporation. Many jurisdictions allow you to query this information online as well as other significant information about any type of registered organization, not just corporations. I know for instance this is the case in Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand, etc.
  - gaadd33 11y ago
    Really? That's pretty cool. I always thought that Hong Kong at least had the same transparency issues that the US and UK have with corporations and trusts. Generally it's that the people nominated as directors or who are named in public filings are lawyers or other corporations and not the actual owners.