Protect Domain Name Privacy : It's the Registered Agent equivalent for the web.

[Trey Blalock <tblalock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The wise people of ICANN,


         Please protect domain name privacy. It's what allows companies to 
launch new sub-businesses in "Stealth-mode" and is effectively no different 
than the use of a Registered Agents for corporations and provides similar 
privacy protections for domain owners. I say this as a person working in the 
vendor surveillance industry and also as a professional penetration tester. 
This type of privacy is important for businesses, their owners, and 
individuals, so they can have the freedom to launch multiple projects without 
their competition being publicly notified of every single domain they register 
the moment it has been registered. The system we have works well and has 
benefits you may not be considering when reviewing this policy change. This 
change you are considering although beneficial for one industry may cause much 
larger amounts of intellectual property damage and intellectual property risk 
to all other people and industries. As with many other aspects of the Internet 
what we have works, it is not perfect but does work well and has lots of 
indirect value that many companies are benefitting greatly from. I do not think 
our current domain name registration process is particularly broken and it 
appears that this proposed change is strictly a push from one or two large 
industries which have not dealt well with the rise of the Internet. For the 
sake of all other entities involved please protect the domain name privacy 
option.


Thank you for your consideration.         -Trey




Trey Blalock
GWAPT, GCFA, GPEN, CISA, CISM, CISSP, SSCP, NSA-IAM
Vice President Security Solutions
Fortress Information Security
Mobile: +1 (404) 550.8739
tblalock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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