John Levine in CircleID: Domains and the Freedom to Speak
“For a very long time, predating the birth of ICANN, there’s been a running battle about what should be required when one registers domain names. …This has led to endless skirmishes about the WHOIS service, one side wanting to abolish it or make it as hard as possible to get info about registrants, the other wanting ICANN to enforce the widely ignored rules that every domain is supposed to have accurate contact info.”


