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Privacy Advocates Bemoan the Problems With WHOIS
An anonymous reader writes "The Globe and Mail is reporting that net privacy advocates are spurring ICANN into scrapping WHOIS. The advocates complain that the system doesn't do enough to protect domain owner information from spammers and fraudsters, and compare the problems to those being experienced on a broader scale by email users. 'WHOIS, much like e-mail, is an age-old Internet relic that comes from a time when the Internet was almost considered a network of trustworthy users. E-mail has, quite clearly, some massive problems coping in the modern age, but it's still here. It stands to reason, then, that WHOIS won't be going anywhere any time soon. Just like e-mail, it's prone to abuse. But again, just like e-mail, it's too useful to axe.'"
If you do business, people have a right to know who they are doing business with!
Two things, lets say Microsoft has a pro-windows or anti-Linux blog talking about how their company found that many Linux distros contain trojans. Now lets say these blogs are done with anonymous registration?
Is this kosher?
Fight Spammers!
If you want to remain private then don't register a PUBLIC domain dame, and a PUBLIC airwave license.
One of the reasons the Internet used to be trustworthy is because you could use whois to look up someone misbehaving and their ISP and notify them, and a responsible ISP would discontinue service to anyone who did not remedy the problem. If you have nothing to hide, then you don't need to remain hidden.