Re: Is WHOIS going to go away?

[bzs () theworld com]

That just sounds like a minor change to fix this, a bug. No need to
burn down the house to kill a mosquito.

And my suggestion to move the publicly visible WHOIS information into
the DNS and thus completely under the domain owner's control would fix
this with minimal effort from the registrant.

I tend to doubt tho that this is a significant reason for the proposed
changes.

On April 20, 2018 at 16:20 rubensk () gmail com (Rubens Kuhl) wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 4:10 PM, <bzs () theworld com> wrote:
>
>    
>     On April 20, 2018 at 12:03 oscar.vives () gmail com (Tei) wrote:
>      > Maybe a good balance for whois is to include organization information
>      > so I know where a website is hosted, but not personal information, so
>      > I can't show in their house and steal their dog.
>      >
>      > I feel uneasy about having my phone available to literally everyone on
>      > the internet.
>
>     There are various privacy options available when one registers a
>     domain, generally a matter of checking a box and usually free.
>
>
> Those privacy options work until one wants to transfer a domain to a different
> registrar. Almost always that will imply in a brief removal of privacy, during
> which an adversary (either a nation-state or some Sideshow Bob-type wacko) will
> learn the true identity of the domain holder. 
>
>
> Rubens
>
>
>  

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