Anonymous Domain Registration for Protecting Privacy? 56
morpheus 2001 asks: "I'm a recent graduate working in a corporate environment. I would to register a domain for a blog, but want to protect my privacy. I would also like keep my employer (and others in my professional circle) from realizing that I am the author by checking the WHOIS for the domain. Under the current ICANN rules, anyone who registers a domain must provide their personal contact information. There are several domain registrars who claim to allow one to register a domain anonymously. They do this by registering in their name, but 'guarantee' the I retain ownership of the domain and can transfer it at any time to another registrar. Has anyone used an anonymous registrar? Did you have any problems retaining ownership? Do you have any recommendations for a reputable registrar? Is this a really stupid idead and bound to cause trouble?"
Fill in bs info (Score:1)
Re:Fill in bs info (Score:3, Informative)
Someone else's name... (Score:4, Insightful)
Daniel
Re:Someone else's name... (Score:2)
Best bets, in decreasing order of trustworthiness: your mother, your attorney, your father, your siblings, your accountant, your friends, your pizza-delivery guy.
Creating a corporation is not an option, because there's still a paper trail (if you're an officer of the corporation).
Another poster mentioned using FreeNet, which is cheaper (n
Alias... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Alias... (Score:1)
Re:Alias... (Score:1)
Re:Google (Score:1, Offtopic)
Have you at least tried to check the link you posted? Did you notice those results don't answer the original posters' request? Did you at least read the article or is this an automated reply to all "ask slashdot" articles?
Re:Google (Score:2, Insightful)
yeah, yeah, okay...
he wants to know how to apply for a domain while maintaining his privacy, so i posted a link to google on "fake id" (as in how to make / obtain fake identification documents). the implication being that he could make / obtain a fake id then apply for a domain.
let my post serve as a lesson for others:
never mix sleep deprivation and attempts at subtle humor
Re:Google (Score:2)
practical experience from Google.
Why is it that every time anybody asks a question, some
knee jerks and launches the 'ask google' football?
I admit that some questions are pure google fodder.
This one is not. It seeks opinions that are likely to be
difficult to the point of impracticability to find in a
google search. There are an infinitude of searches which
might be appropriate, and a large number than might be
productive, but no obvious means of constru
Freenet? (Score:1)
Comment removed (Score:5, Informative)
Re:GoDaddy (Score:3, Informative)
Fill it out anonymously (Score:1)
If you're going to do this . . . (Score:3, Insightful)
Using false information (Score:5, Insightful)
Keep in mind whoever you register your domain with still has your billing information. If you say something that's legal but still pisses off a corporation or scientologists or something, they might use the lawsuit trick, where they sue you for libel, forcing the registar to hand over your identity, then they drop the lawsuit.
Re:Using false information (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Using false information (Score:2)
a phrase encrypted with your private key. Then your claim
would be taken seriously by a court.
Re:Using false information (Score:2)
Re:Using false information (Score:2)
Of course, if there's large money involved, your registrar might just hand it over anyways.
Did you consider publishing to freenet? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Did you consider publishing to freenet? (Score:2)
Until there's a mainstream non-Java Freenet implementation, Freenet will probably never become terribly popular. The current Freenet implementation sucks down memory like there's no tomorrow (and isn't terribly efficient, for something that's always draining away cycles in the background).
Re:Did you consider publishing to freenet? (Score:2)
Freenet's not exactly lighting the world on fire even in a post-Napster P2P balkanized world. Face the facts: Freenet isn't popular for the very simple reason that you have *no* control over what's on your machine. (Just try explaining your "rights" to the FBI as they haul you off with several gigabytes of kiddie
Re:Did you consider publishing to freenet? (Score:2)
*shrug* I disagree. Any http caching proxy runs into the same thing. It's highly unlikely that either of these folks will run into legal liability.
Even if getting "caught" were not a risk, a great many of us would never consider being part of Freenet simply because of the likelihood that we would unknowingly promote reprehensible things.
I suppose that many people probably do feel t
Re:Did you consider publishing to freenet? (Score:2)
But there's on big difference: Any traffic crossing *my* cacheing proxy *is* the responsibility of someone on my network. Not so with Freenet.
Re:Did you consider publishing to freenet? (Score:2)
Free speech is meaningless without anonymity.
.cx doesn't care (Score:1)
is this a good idea? (Score:2, Insightful)
Sounds akin to a trust holding title to shares etc (Score:2)
If the appropriate legal contracts are in place,
this seems very much like Family or other Trusts
holding ["at arms length"] shares, et al. on
behalf of its member(s).
In Australia, there may be tax advantages for
those who use trusts.
Politicians (who might be deemed to have conflicts-
of-interest, eg when their shares' values may
change with how the vote goes on some proposed
legislation) have been known to place these
shares (or their entire portfolio) into the
hands of trust managers, to
proxy (Score:3, Informative)
Re:proxy (Score:2)
Subdomains (Score:3, Informative)
Form a sole proprietorship... (Score:2)
Lawyer (Score:3)
Record nothing you don't want on the 6o'clock news (Score:3, Insightful)
If you are going to set up a blog, and you are concerned about your employer finding out about it, then don't do it. You should assume that if they care, they can find out who is behind the blog.
They can, you know. They just claim that the blog has some DMCA prohibited content, get a takedown notice, go to the ISP, and find out where the wire leads. Even if you host on some East Elbownian server, they can find out who is behind it if they care badly enough.
You are concerned that your employer might find out. OK, you can do one of two things that can work:
But trying to do this anonymously and hoping your boss doesn't find out is a losing proposition.
Another solution (Score:2)
2) come up with a pseudonym
3)
4) um... profit?
Seriously, if it's important enough to you to receive dead tree material related to your domain or otherwise establish an address for a domain, come up with some pseudonym and stick a PO box address in there.
Re:Another solution (Score:1)
Re:Another solution (Score:2)
Yes, they need to link you to a solid address for fraud reasons (and to prevent ID theft), so if you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about, right?
But now this ventures to topic drift.
Re:Another solution (Score:1)
Don't worry about contact info (Score:2)
But, if you ARE that VAIN... just register underneath one of those big blog sites that will give you a free blog.. Unless you are starting a business, I don't see how a proper domain name all for you is that necessary. I can't count how many people I know who registered "COOL" Domain names that don't use them, and collect dust.
Christ.. I'm still trying to figure out why this blog bs took off, and w
That's because he's really making a porn site (Score:2)
Tonic!! (Score:2)
w00t.