Why? It costs money to manage a privacy service and deal with complaints, queries etc., Of course if I could charge you €20 / year for a .com registration I’d happily give you the privacy service for free ☺ Regards Michele -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains http://www.blacknight.host/ http://blacknight.blog / http://ceo.hosting/ Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 ------------------------------- Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd, Unit 12A,Barrowside Business Park,Sleaty Road,Graiguecullen,Carlow,Ireland Company No.: 370845 From: <registration-issues-wg-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org> on behalf of "cw@christopherwilkinson.eu" <cw@christopherwilkinson.eu> Date: Wednesday 8 February 2017 at 18:54 To: Carlton Samuels <carlton.samuels@gmail.com> Cc: "registration-issues-wg@icann.org" <registration-issues-wg@icann.org>, RDS WG <gnso-rds-pdp-wg@icann.org> Subject: Re: [registration-issues-wg] WHOIS Privacy - Spicer Style Whois privacy should be the default. Not a chargeable extra. If best practice privacy was generalised, I doubt that there would be such interest in proxy services. CW On 08 Feb 2017, at 19:41, Carlton Samuels <carlton.samuels@gmail.com<mailto:carlton.samuels@gmail.com>> wrote: Um, well......grist for the mill, I suppose. http://domainnamewire.com/2017/02/08/sean-spicer-brings-attention-whois-priv... -Carlton ============================== Carlton A Samuels Mobile: 876-818-1799 Strategy, Planning, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround ============================= _______________________________________________ registration-issues-wg mailing list registration-issues-wg@atlarge-lists.icann.org<mailto:registration-issues-wg@atlarge-lists.icann.org> https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/registration-issues-wg