On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 01:44:50PM -0500, Greg Shatan wrote:
set forth in Section 3.12 of the RAA, it's confusing at best to call all of these intermediaries "resellers."
Sure. We can call them Sparky the Wonder Dogs, if we like; but the key point is that it is useful -- for network operations, for technical support people, and for lawyers who realise that their clients' domain names are registered improperly -- to be able to look up this minimal information about who registered a domain name, and to do so without formal credentials (because _ex hypothesi_ here the "real" domain name holder doesn't have a direct relationship with the registrar or, in some of these cases, isn't actually the registrant). The question started off as whether there was a legit use case for this, and I think we've demonstrated through this discussion that there is. A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@anvilwalrusden.com