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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."
...but I don't want to give out my name, adress, email, et cetera.
I believe that all .com and .net etc... should be a subset of a country suffix. Too many companys and organisations hide their origin as .com is too generic.
and this to me blurrs what specific law applies to what information.
does this mean i can t run a toys r us anonymously ?
The owner of the domain fuc.kthe.us - reported here probably isn't going to like this...
Indy Media Watch-Proctologist of the Internet
All your domains are belong to .US
but then i coundn't have this http://www.amassivegayorgyandcollectedsomuchjizzhe hastocarryitinajizzb.us/ url!
"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
They're doing it just because THEYCANN. ...
"It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one." - Voltaire
www.goatse.us will be available to the masses.
You've *never* seen the Grinch like this before.
Unfortunately, I am not Wil Wheaton
Just FYI, I'm a professional sysadmin and have been doing it a long time. Your comments about 'running toy servers' are a cheap shot and misdirected.
Very simply, you don't EVER need to know who and what I am, simply because I own a domain. You just don't. A domain is not IP space. And even if I DO have IP space, if you have a problem with an attack coming from that space, you can contact my ISP, who maintains records and can contact me, likely within minutes. If you have a complaint about the domain, then you can contact my registrar. (not sure how long that takes... but if it's not involving a specific IP, it's highly unlikely to be an emergency.) You can also email me directly via the Namecheap anonymous relay. Those three contact methods are enough. You don't need anything more than that.
The alternative is that you can contact me in ways I don't approve of and can't control. Probably any address listed in the WHOIS is going to be a good target for breakin, for instance -- probably going to be more tech goodies there than most places. And, of course, if you happen to disagree with something I'm saying, you can find out precisely what window to throw a brick through.
A domain is not automatically IP space, and it's not automatically a server. Requiring non-anonymous domain registrations shows poor thinking, a fundamental confusion over how the Internet works. It's IP SPACE that matters, not domains.