[Chapter-delegates] Internet Society Appointments to theNTIA/IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group

[Avri Doria]

On 07-Jul-14 11:40, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> There is, for instance, a significant component of the Non-Commercial
> Users Constituency within ICANN's GNSO that believes that a registrant
> has the right to keep their contact data private and hidden from you.
> They do not share your interest in having accessible, working contact
> information.

Or they may just wish to avoid danger from harassment, salking and
bullying, who is escaping forms of online violence against women or
violence against persecuted minorities, persecution from repressive
governments, abusive spouses who happen to be LEA, or master sergeants
who want to trace the person that successfully prosecuted them for abuse.

I can think of all sorts of reasons for wanting to keep your private
details private for safety sake, even if you dare to something [elite
and unnecessary] like getting a domain name.

In one way of looking at it, an single individual would have to be nuts
to give a personal address for a whois that publishes it for the world
to see.  And an institution that took care of threatened individuals
would be negligent to do so.