Yes, it's a great tool used by pimps, human traffickers, software pirates, drug-dealers, counterfieters and terrorists the world over.

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Domain-name abuse proliferates; rogue registrars turn a blind eye From: Wendy Seltzer <wendy@seltzer.com> Date: Mon, September 14, 2009 2:42 pm To: NA Discuss <na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Alan Greenberg wrote:

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I support this. No one (among us in any case) is likely to advocate WHOIS inaccuracy, You didn't really think I'd let that pass? I do not advocate WHOIS accuracy, as I believe it focuses on the wrong points in the chain of accountability. I support "inaccuracy" as one way among many of maintaining privacy or anonymity in domain registration. --Wendy -- Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@seltzer.org Fellow, Silicon Flatirons Center at University of Colorado Law School Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html http://www.chillingeffects.org/ https://www.torproject.org/

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