[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] WSGR Final Memorandum

[Volker Greimann]

Neil, you seem to be making a few assumptions and claim them to be 
facts, so they will have to be corrected:

Proxy or privacy are not "obvious cash-cows", for many registrars they 
are loss-leaders or financially irrelevant. Many registrars offer these 
services to meet customer demand, not to make a quick buck. While it is 
true that these services can be profitable for some registrars, this is 
not the case for more registrars.

I also do not see it as ironic than contact information is published ob 
websites, but not in the whois for a large number of reasons:

- publishing contact information on websites is a legal requirement in 
many jurisdictions, but publishing it in whois is not.

- publication on websites can be controlled, and protected against 
automated harvesting by any number of means, publication in whois cannot.

- the owner of the domain name and the operator of a websites may not be 
the same

Best,

Volker


Am 01.10.2017 um 21:58 schrieb Neil Schwartzman:
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>
> Proxy registrations, an obvious cash-cow for registrars, are 
> considered a negative by receiving systems. The ironic bit is when 
> registrants use WHOIS Proxy services then post their contact 
> information on the website, which happens enough to brighten my day 
> regularly.
>
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