They bought out another registrar I was a customer of. Now I am paying 40% more for renewals. If I want to migrate I need to expose my whois info. They're always looking to upsell me into some horrible hosting garbage.
Anyway. Nice to see the FTC getting a few wins in before they are defanged by the new administration.
I still have a .com domain that I've registered from when I was a child and I've just never bothered to update the information on it, the regulations on these are as lax as godaddys security.
If you're a site with millions of views a day this might be different.
Although it's a real ICANN rule, the registrar is allowed to override it if they want. Of course very few registrars offer that kind of customer service, so that escape hatch might as well not exist...