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Pirate Bay Founder Launches Anonymous Domain Registration Service (torrentfreak.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Former Pirate Bay spokesperson and co-founder Peter Sunde has just announced his latest venture. Keeping up his fight for privacy on the Internet, he's launching a new company called Njalla, that helps site operators to shield their identities from prying eyes. The name Njalla refers to the traditional hut that Sami people use to keep predators at bay. It's built on a tall stump of a tree or pole and is used to store food or other goods. On the Internet, Njalla helps to keep people's domain names private. While anonymizer services aren't anything new, Sunde's company takes a different approach compared to most of the competition. With Njalla, customers don't buy the domain names themselves, they let the company do it for them. This adds an extra layer of protection but also requires some trust. A separate agreement grants the customer full usage rights to the domain. This also means that people are free to transfer it elsewhere if they want to.
Just means if the company gets seized, you have no rights to your domain as it's not yours, it's company assets.
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
Your so-called "argument" could be applied to just about any/every tool or service ever invented that someone somewhere decided to exploit for nefarious reasons.
The problem with public registration requirements is that it puts people at a significant disadvantage compared to corporations. A person is much more exposed by having all the required information from a domain registration accessible in a public database. The only requirements should be that the domain owner can be contacted through the registrar, and that an address where legal documents can be served must be on file and handed over to authorities with a warrant, but none of the information needs to be public. It's not right that I can't have my own email address without also giving everybody my home address if I give them my email address.
All the reasons have already been stated. Leave it to say the only real solution is the replacement of DNS with something more peer to peer. The next best thing is to keep a local cache. Trust no one.