Michele is correct. ccTLDs in the EU usually do not publish personal data in the WHOIS, but they have to handle the complaints. And that simply costs money. So regardless where we are going with RDS regarding thick or thin, at some point, some party has to handle the complaints, and that costs money, could be the Registry, could be the Registrar, could be a third party privacy provider. Theo On 8-2-2017 20:33, Michele Neylon - Blacknight wrote:

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 J

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*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

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