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Anonymous Domain Registration for Protecting Privacy?
morpheus 2001 asks: "I'm a recent graduate working in a corporate environment. I would to register a domain for a blog, but want to protect my privacy. I would also like keep my employer (and others in my professional circle) from realizing that I am the author by checking the WHOIS for the domain. Under the current ICANN rules, anyone who registers a domain must provide their personal contact information. There are several domain registrars who claim to allow one to register a domain anonymously. They do this by registering in their name, but 'guarantee' the I retain ownership of the domain and can transfer it at any time to another registrar. Has anyone used an anonymous registrar? Did you have any problems retaining ownership? Do you have any recommendations for a reputable registrar? Is this a really stupid idead and bound to cause trouble?"
The problem with this approach is that you'll never be able to prove that you are the owner of the domain. But if you willing to stick with only one registrar for the life of the domain, and you have an account with the registrar that's separate from the domain, then it might work.
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Did you consider publishing to freenet? I get the feeling that Freenet (www.freenetproject.org) is exactly what you want - it's like the internet, but anonymous, encrypted, distributed, etc. etc. Oh, and it doesn't cost you any money to publish to Freenet.
Domains By Proxy specializes in just this. Ignore all these clowns that tell you to use false info.
It's a little less professional, but you could use one of the many DNS redirection services (dyndns.org, for example, offers free and premium services) to give you a yourname.sitename.org address. They generally require only an email address and password.
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
If you fill in the registration using false information, anyone has a right to claim ownership over your domain and there is nothing you can do to prevent it.
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
I Did use their privacy service, It's called Domians By Proxy. You still have full control of it but it shows up with them as the contact info. They will forward messages to you and such including postal mail, but from there they do not respond to anyting for you, thats up to you, but for that just grab a hotmail account or something.
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