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Wikileaks Calls For Global Boycott Against eNom

Posted by kdawson on from the all-their-heirs-and-assigns dept.

souls writes "The folks at Wikileaks are calling for a boycott against eNom, Inc., one of the top internet domain registrars, which WikiLeaks claims is involved in systematic domain censoring. On Feb 28th eNom shut down wikileaks.info, one of the many Wikileaks mirrors held by a volunteer as a side-effect of the court proceedings around wikileaks.org. In addition, eNom was the registrar that shut off access to a Spanish travel agent who showed up on a US Treasury watch list. Wikileaks calls for a 'global boycott of eNom and its parent Demand Media, its owners, executives and their affiliated companies, interests and holdings, to make clear such behavior can and will not be tolerated within the boundaries of the Internet and its global community.'"

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  1. information versus action by yakiimo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Perhaps it doesn't fit with what the wikileaks people intended when they started it, but I wish that wikileaks would let/encourage others to fight using their facts (however much is fact) rather than wikileaks themselves doing it. Somehow their active stance makes me more wary of the information on the site.

  2. other registrars? by ionix5891 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    i have dozens of websites registered thru enom

    are there any other registrars that are not "evil"?

  3. Re:How About GoDaddy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    Registrars who are OpenSRS-sanctioned are often classified as "good", except for the fact that OpenSRS has been known to sell customer contact information (read: not just WHOIS data, but what's actually in customer billing profiles) to whoever the highest bidder is.

    So there's no guaranteed way to determine who's "good" or who's "bad". Some consider cheap == good, others consider moral == good, while extremists declare ICANN == good. You have to decide for yourself.

    As for me, I'll stick with eNom. Why? Because of all the registrars out there which I've examined, they have one of the best control panel interfaces for managing domains, and support WHOIS privacy for a nominal fee. Their domain prices aren't that great, but you get what you pay for. I went through 4 different OpenSRS-based registrars before saying "fuck this" and went with eNom. Oh, and I sure as hell ain't giving VeriSign (read: NetSol) my money.