Re: [ga] Whois/Privacy

["kidsearch" <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Godaddy already chose to put that system in place so I'm not imposing 
anything on them Karl. It's part of their policy, not my own. I simply 
sought the remedy they made available. I cannot sue the entity for having 
false whois information and I am not harmed due to false whois information. 
ICANN has policies in place regarding the whois and what can happen if 
someone puts in false information and some registrars honor that policy.

If you do not have privacy protection offline for your business why do you 
believe that it should be otherwise online Karl. We are not talking about 
some guy in china running a blog whop doesn't want to be found by the 
chinese government here. We are talking about people asking consumers to 
trust them and give them money. Offline the records of who owns the business 
are public record as the whois is today. Again, I ask why you feel that 
online this should be different?

Chris McElroy aka NameCritic
http://www.articlecontentprovider.com



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karl Auerbach" <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "kidsearch" <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "GA" <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: [ga] Whois/Privacy


> kidsearch wrote:
> > As a small businessman I disagree with this. Yesterday, I found a website 
> > that is using as it's template one of my websites that I paid to have 
> > designed.
>
> And you seem to want goDaddy to be a policeman to go out, act as judge, 
> jury, and executioner, on the basis of your uncontested assertion of 
> ownership, and shut the accused down.
>
> It is an understandable feeling.  And if things are as you say, you have 
> rights that have been violated and you deserve civil compensation and the 
> wrongdoer may even deserve criminal punishment.
>
> But the method you propose is not in accord with our established methods 
> of justice.
>
> You have an adequate, and accepted, course of action.  And that course is 
> to invoke the legal system.  That will give you the tools, under 
> supervision of a neutral party, the courts, to go to people such as 
> GoDaddy, and require them to open their business records so that you can 
> find out more about the the real identity of the asserted wrongdoers.
>
> We ought not to ravish the conception of privacy on the alter of 
> expediency.
>
> --karl--