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by inetknght 2192 days ago
> There's no requirement that the domain owner's contact be a "registered agent." In fact, the person who owns the domain may be different from the business using it.

No, but if the domain itself is serving content then the domain owner is, and should be, party to any complaints related to the domain. Even if the domain owner isn't the "registered agent" of the business, they assuredly must know how to contact the registered agent and should have "skin in the game", so to speak, for being a proxy. Not knowing or being able to contact the business owner is, I would argue, grounds for fraud and misrepresentation.

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I don't think CloudFlare knows who my registered agent is. But I am a paid customer of theirs and they cache my website and serve my DNS.
Do they own your domain? Or just serve it. Were taking about domain owners not hosts
CloudFlare responds to fraud claims and legal action.
So Facebook should be considered a proxy for frauds delivered through Facebook.

I agree .

They certainly should be...but they lobbied for laws that say they aren’t liable.

That is why there is a major effort to repeal those laws.