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Re: Is WHOIS going to go away?
From: Rubens Kuhl <rubensk () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 16:20:17 -0300
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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- RE: Is WHOIS going to go away? Keith Medcalf (Apr 20)
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