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by berkes
460 days ago
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That need for a national ID hasn't been in place for a long time, AFAIK. I have a .es (my nickname berkes, domain berk.es) for almost 16 years now, and live in the EU, but not in Spain. In the beginning I used a small company that offered services for non-spanish companies to register .es through them (I believe they technically owned the domains?). But today it's just in my local domain registrar without need for an ID. That .es has no whois has struck me as somewhat of a benefit actually. Back in the days, it kept away a lot of spam from spammers that'd just lift email-addresses off the whois. My .com, .nl and other domains recieve(d) significant more such spam. Let alone phone-number and other personal details delivered over an efficient, decentralized network. Though recent privacy addons(?) have mitigated that a little. |
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It's not very well documented, but you can register at a government site using a national ID and they'll open WHOIS access for a fixed IP address, for a maximum of 10 queries a minute. [0]
Context for any of you not used to the .es ccTLDs: Until some years ago, and simplifying a bit, if you wanted to register a .es TLD you had to be an Spanish national or company, and be the legal holder of the domain name you wanted to register (or your name and surnames).
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