Private .US Registrations Disallowed by NTIA

jnetsurfer writes "Apparently, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration ("NTIA") has decided that domains under the TLD .US have no right to privacy. New domain names ending in .US will not be able to be registered as "private" and current owners of .US names will be forced to reveal their contact information starting "no later than January 26, 2006". This means that you can't run an annonymous website with a .US TLD. If you don't like this, feel free to sign the petition."

Comments

Re:I'd sign the petition...

[tomhudson]

So don't get a domain, if you're so afraid of being in the public eye. It's a contradiction. The only people who would benefit would be the spammers, and we've got enough of them.

Nobody's *required* to have a domain. If you want to speak anonymnously, there are plenty of ways to do so - for example, posting as an anonymous coward, as you just did.

Owning and running a domain requires a certain level of responsability/accountability.

There are any number of valid reasons to want to maintain some sort of privacy to keep the freaks and nutcases from tracking you down.

The ones most likely to be "tracked down" are the spammers who would want to be completely anonymous.

The most violent thing I've ever seen a goth kid do is pick his nose. But I tell you, I sure was thinking about going into hiding recently when the school shooting occurred.

Fuck, we DO lead a sheltered, paranoid life, don't we. Take off your tinfoil hat - it's on WAY too tight. If you keep it on that tight, you'll end up like this person.