Privacy in Domain Names
Karl Auerbach is here in Montreal, adding notes on WHOIS and privacy to his CaveBear Blog. I particularly appreciate his proposal to establish a truly anonymous domain name registration service, capturing only technically relevant data:
I hope to run an experiment soon in which people can register names anonymously and without the retention of any contact information whatsoever - control of a name would be in the form of a digital certificate, a kind of bearer bond.
Thomas Roessler, also here and blogging many of the sessions, shares concern over privacy in WHOIS records, and busts a few strawmen.