yooohoo, mr stalker....
It seems Congress (con being the opposite of pro) is keen on being able to accurately target (online)companies committing fraud, and thusly are seeking stiffer penalties for said businesses who register their domains using false information.
Anyone semi-versed in domains understands the power wielded by the 'whois' command. Hell, any registrar offers a web-based lookup. Yes, I want to know how to contact a business, but I don't want people I don't know to be able to physically track me down (unless they're coming over for a nooner). This is why I pay the phone co. $2/month to keep me unpublished and unlisted. Where's the trade off?
According to the article,
The bill would not affect people who are trying to safeguard their privacy because it only makes it a crime to submit false registration data when it is done to help commit a crime, said Mark Bohannon, senior vice president for public policy at the Software & Information Industry Association, which supports the bill.
Somewhere along the way I got lost as to when the US began to own "everything", and thus would have power against a company in another country with false registrant information that is committing fraud. *ponder*
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13538-2004Feb4.html
Anyone semi-versed in domains understands the power wielded by the 'whois' command. Hell, any registrar offers a web-based lookup. Yes, I want to know how to contact a business, but I don't want people I don't know to be able to physically track me down (unless they're coming over for a nooner). This is why I pay the phone co. $2/month to keep me unpublished and unlisted. Where's the trade off?
According to the article,
The bill would not affect people who are trying to safeguard their privacy because it only makes it a crime to submit false registration data when it is done to help commit a crime, said Mark Bohannon, senior vice president for public policy at the Software & Information Industry Association, which supports the bill.
Somewhere along the way I got lost as to when the US began to own "everything", and thus would have power against a company in another country with false registrant information that is committing fraud. *ponder*
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13538-2004Feb4.html