[Gnso-ppsai-pdp-wg] Interesting article

[Kathy Kleiman]

Hi Volker,
Tx for Andrew (Allemann)'s article. I include a few quotes below. Best, 
Kathy
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"This is one of the reasons big corporations use whois privacy. They 
register some defensive domain names and don't want to call attention to 
it. The other big reason is that they don't want to tip off their new 
product plans.

One of the biggest suppliers of whois privacy services for these 
companies is brand protection company Mark Monitor, which registers 
domains for clients under then name DNStination Inc.

When ISIS (the payments company) started registering domains 
<http://domainnamewire.com/2014/09/03/isis-chooses-softcard/> for a 
brand change, it used whois privacy.

When Bank of America registered hundreds 
<http://domainnamewire.com/2010/12/20/bank-of-america-wants-you-to-know-its-executives-dont-suck/> 
of "sucks" and "blows" domain names for its executives, it used whois 
privacy.

And when Proactiv wanted to make its recall as quiet as possible 
<http://domainnamewire.com/2011/11/28/proactiv-wants-to-be-quiet-about-its-product-recall/>, 
it used whois privacy."

Full article at link below...

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> Point in case for positive uses of whois privacy:
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> http://domainnamewire.com/2014/12/04/whois-privacy-big-company/#more-32594 
>
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> Not relevant to the current discussion of relay and reveal, but still 
> interesting...
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