On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:43:40 +0100, James Taylor jt@imen.org.uk was rumoured to have said:
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Noodles said something which made me think as well - does the type of domain being registered matter? I mean if you're registering a .fr domain in the UK, are you obeying UK law or French law?
I believe that what information goes on the whois database is generally a matter of registry policy, and not The Law (tm). For instance, Nominet allows private individuals to have their details omitted:
http://www.nominet.org.uk/other/whois/faq/#choose
The only reason I ask is that we have a competitor who I was trying to find out some information on, who are based in Scotland who don't give out any information on their website, such as a phone number and so on, and who is registration comes back as registered to easyspaceprivacy.com , for which to contact the domain masters you fill out their online form. Whilst I understand that some people are allowed to have their details made private (same exceptions as a PO Box being able to be made without the P/O knowing your address), this easyspaceprivacy does seem to have attracted fraudulent use (searching for them comes back with dodgy escrow services for example).
It could be that easyspaceprivacy.com own the domain name and are not just the registrant's agent.
rgds, /-sb.