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Jamie Jones Silver badge

Re: My address has gone off whois!

Yep, and obviously not a "critical part of the infrastructure"

Of course, originally when only companies and organisations had domain names, it was useful.

My guess is that when it started to get personal, any discussions on making in private were met with "charitable donations".

Either that, or they realised they could make money selling it off directly ("We aren't doing anything wrong, it's all public information")

It was never a technical or legal use, and they were right arseholes to ever try to spin it that way.

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