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Extortion Fees For Privacy
- To: <comments-sharp-proposed-amendment-30jul15@xxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Extortion Fees For Privacy
- From: "Mike McComber 206.328.2498" <mccomber@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 09:20:34 -0700
The whois database should be protected from public view by default for all the
reasons listed by register companies using scare tactics to justify charging
their customers extra money when registering a domain to keep their information
from being exposed on the internet. These register companies all provide a list
of bad things that will happen because your information you are required to
provide when you register a domain will be publicly available. But for a fee
they will hide or “protect” your information for you like if should have been
in the first place. It is the very definition of extortion.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/extortion?s=t Some register companies
are doubling the cost of registration to provide this “service” which amounts
to an extortion fee. These companies all blame ICANN while profiting off the
ability to provide privacy while the customer can't and is extorted. ICANN
should not enable these predatory register companies to extort their customers!
In essence these register companies threaten to make your information available
on the web unless you pay them their fee. That is not a service, it is
extortion. A service would be paying extra to have your information available
to the public. Some companies will offer “protection” for the first year for
free but than charge you the extortion fee for every year after that.
When registering a domain the customer should have control, not the register of
making the registration information public or private.
Companies which charge extortion fees:
https://www.name.com/whois-privacy
http://www.domain.com/domains/whoisprivacy.bml
https://www.namecheap.com/security/whoisguard.aspx
http://www.netregistry.com.au/domain-names/domain-privacy/
https://www.godaddy.com/domainaddon/private-registration.aspx
Companies working to solve this issue:
https://support.google.com/domains/answer/3251242?vid=0-635768889061081556-1257261615#private-registration-settings
http://www.1and1.com/domain-names#your-domain
https://www.gandi.net/domain/whois/
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