In article <60cf421.bf1cb7eb.163301149ea@gmx.ch> you write:
I don't want to defend whois hiding but you forget to mention that this does not only help criminals to hide but also protects (a bit at least) the privacy of the wast majority of "uncriminal" normal users.
To point out the obvious, the vast majority of "uncriminal" normal users do not have personal domains so their information would never appear in WHOIS in the first place, and the vast majority of domains are registered by organizations which have no privacy rights, not natural persons who do. We've been pointing this out for a decade to academics who imagine themselves to be privacy advocates. They have consistently stuck their fingers in their ears "la la I don't hear you" so I doubt it'll be any more effective this time. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly