Corporations and their proxies may be allowed to deceitfully register domains, but that doesn't mean people don't notice, and complain about it: http://blog.consumerwebwatch.org/2008/12/animal_planetclorox_frog_site.html http://blog.consumerwebwatch.org/2007/07/why_the_hon_code_is_worthless.html#... for instance. The system is broken all the way around. -----Original Message-----

From: Karl Auerbach <karl@cavebear.com> Sent: Jan 31, 2011 3:28 PM To: at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org Subject: Re: [At-Large] Impressions from the Whois-Review

On 01/31/2011 11:23 AM, Omar Kaminski wrote:

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And how about the so called proxies?

Corporate shells are frequently used by corporate entities to hide the actual ownership and control.

And we allow those corporate shells to register domain names without any complaint - we accept their identities as legitimate.

Why are we so unwilling to accord to people the same protective rights as we do to corporations?

--karl--

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