We domain owners need our privacy for our own protection

[Sorgfelt <sorgfelt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had a domain which was associated with an online presence that tried to 
expose political lies and debate on social and intelligence issues with people 
who wanted to know where I lived. Because I had registered my domain according 
to the rules, I realized that those people could track me down and endanger my 
family and both my and my spouse's jobs, which were politically sensitive. 
Given the danger, I cancelled my ownership of the domain, upon which it was 
almost immediately taken over by Chinese criminals who have used it for spam 
and the spread of malware and have not properly registered it. This is an 
example of why we need privacy protections, to protect our right to free speech 
and the safety of our families. If you force people to register in their own 
names and not through proxies, you force people to expose themselves to 
criminal elements, and subsequently force them to try to spread their ideas 
through some medium other than the Internet, or give up the idea of freedom at 
all.



U.S. Citizen, so-called "Land of the Free"