It would cost the registrars something to do so, obviously, but so does this. And a basic level of privacy should never have been allowed to become a premium service to begin with.
It would cost the registrars something to do so, obviously, but so does this. And a basic level of privacy should never have been allowed to become a premium service to begin with.
And i don't mean to imply that the computer scientists of yesteryear were somehow more honest people. It's just a lot less likely for someone to cheat in a group of a few hundred, where everyone is at most one degree of social separation from everyone else, and everyone is in any case very similar in background. Harder to screw over someone you see at all the conferences than some random stranger online, and if you do there will be social, not just legal, consequences.
(If any Registrar reads this, could you explain the extra cost of providing free whois privacy? It seems like the cost associated would be minimal, and the payback would be huge? I heard the true cost to a company for a .com domain is around $7.00? Go ahead and add one or two dollars to the domain for profit. Just be consistent, honest, and no shenanigans. Oh, I looked into Gandi--and they are just to much money.)
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