Re: [At-Large] Issue Report on Thick Whois

* Alan Greenberg wrote:

Thanks. Regarding proxy registrations, some people read the current contracts as not allowing them, but that is moot at this point, since they have been going on for a long time now and ICANN has never tried to stop them. Certainly for .net and .com, it is far too late to put the genie back in the bottle. So no change from thin to thick whois is going to alter the current situation. Or at least, that is how I read it.

It's a matter of interpretation. Proxies "replace" the Domain owner, so they *are* the domain holder in the contract model of ICANN. OTOH privacy services hide some of the required records in the WHOIS data. Lacking a formal definition within ICANN, privacy services produce incorrect entries.