Neil Schwartzman wrote:
Like I said - show me a list of names of people who can't afford the commercial obfuscation systems, who have an identifiable need for a domain and a private whois record, and I will pay out of my own pocket to cover the services.
How about an orthogonal set: people who need more than obfuscation, but actual anonymity in their domain registrations? I've worked with and talked to people whose names were revealed by "proxy" services such as Domains-by-Proxy based on an unverified complaint from an adverse claimant. These are people engaged in legitimate advocacy and criticism, who have legitimate interests in stable location pointers for their online speech, who fear reprisals if their identities are known. It's not that they can't pay, but that no one offers them the anonymity they want at any price. --Wendy -- Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@seltzer.org phone: 718.780.7961 // fax: 718.780.0394 // cell: 914.374.0613 Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html http://www.chillingeffects.org/