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I believe it is now illegal to use bogus company names or false addresses for domain ownership. Too many spammers have used this technique to hide the source of spam. Even Network Solutions (Verisign) got into trouble with this recently, and was given a limited time to correct many false entries by their customers. In fact, I think this is partially the reason that the .ORG domain authority is now being awarded to another company. (
This is the reason why services like the godaddy.com system (
exist. They provide the corporate identity as the "official" owner, while protecting you from the general public. However, they also can turn over your real identity to any official request, such as legal services, police, government, etc...
As far as I am concerned, this is an excellent solution. I have already registered two domains this way. The contract they use specifies that they are the official owner of your domain as long as you pay the service, but that you still retain the right to the domain as per your agreement with them. As soon as you stop paying, their services automatically reverts the domain back to your official ownership, so
whois queries will now show your actual information. Seems like we have a system that works. -------------------------------------------
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