.Name Registrar Defends Pay for Whois Policy


	.Name Registrar Defends Pay for Whois Policy

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e2bb823e-f912-4a57-b3be-36894cbe9d0a/5189E7E7-300F-416B-BF4C-A5F23F79E4DD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/09/name-registrar-.html" href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/09/name-registrar-.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.wired.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/09/name-registrar-.html"><P>Security researchers are <A href="http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/09/dot_name">frustrated</A> that they need to pay money to learn details about domain names ending in .name, as <A href="http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/09/dot_name">reported</A> in today's Wired News, but the company in charge says the policy doesn't stymie security researchers and protects anonymous internet speech.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/09/name-registrar-.html"><P>Hakon Haugnes, the founder and president of the <A href="http://nic.name/">Global Name Registry</A>, the company that oversees the .name Top Level Domain, said via an email after the story ran that the controversial policy is a compromise between ICANN's older Whois lookup policy and the European Union's Data Protection Act.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/09/name-registrar-.html"><P>It is an important principle in the [EU Data Protection] Act that people should be able to register for the service without thereby disclosing their private information. At the same time, we and others want to ensure that people violating laws and policies can be tracked down and sites taken down when required.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5189E7E7-300F-416B-BF4C-A5F23F79E4DD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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