The whole "default for companies to hide their information" seems to be a reaction to all the European privacy laws (which I admit I know exist, but otherwise don't know anything about them or what they say). One of the registrars I use on a regular basis (Moniker, based out of Florida) went through and changed most of mine and all of my customers whois records to their version of privacy records, and they did this with no notification or choice what so ever. When I asked Moniker about it, they send me a canned reply about complying with current privacy laws (even though as far as I can tell, they mostly don't apply to me).
-----Original message----- From:Steven Champeon via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> Sent:Thu 08-29-2019 12:50 pm Subject:Re: [mailop] Weird blocking by outlook.com (S3150) To:mailop@mailop.org; *claps* I can't be the only person who believes the whole "privacy" claim for failing to provide accurate information about who is using the Internet to be complete and utter nonsensical bullshit, right? I make a living classifying PTR naming conventions, so I spend much of my day (and the past 13 years) looking at WHOIS and rwhois lookups. In the past few years it has become more or less the default for companies and organizations and ISPs and telcos to hide their information, even though you can go to their Web site and find out who they are and how to contact them and where their locations are and so forth.
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