[tscs37]

There is no reason that domain providers will be incapable of providing a contact point and you were always able to put a separate email inbox on WHOIS.

But there is no need for a full postal address of real email addresses that people might use for personal contacts or a real name. That just leads to more abuse.

Same for phone numbers.

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> There is no reason that domain providers will be incapable of providing a contact point and you were always able to put a separate email inbox on WHOIS.

The registrars have an interest in not delivering requests for sale or even abuse reports, because it's likely that they will result in the domain either being decommissioned or moved to another registrar.

[tscs37]

I have no problem with the former but they do have incentive for the later as not delivering the abuse reports will lead to the domain being decommissioned because it's on every spam and blacklist ever.

WHOIS Privacy Services have been doing exactly this for a long time and they are usually paid by the domain registrar.

I think that problem is more imagined since there doesn't seem to be this problem in the real world.

[microcolonel]

> WHOIS Privacy Services have been doing exactly this for a long time and they are usually paid by the domain registrar.

Yes, but crucially they are not the domain registrar, and that's because this was already a problem.

[tscs37]

And then what is the problem with continuing this but reinforcing this business structure? Because shitty registrars could now be more shitty?

Honest and good registrars don't have a problem with WHOIS services, you claim they would since the emails they forward could lead to lost sales.

The WHOIS service is just as incentivized to filter out certain mails since they are paid by the registrar and thus get profit of sold domains.