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by larrys 4799 days ago
"Providing incorrect data is grounds for cancellation of your domain name."

Not speaking for other registrars of course but what's the chance that we will cancel your domain because there is "inaccurate" info?

In order to do that someone would have to file a complaint with ICANN then ICANN contacts us and we send you an email telling you to fix the info. And we would bend over backwards before cancelling the domain because who wants to deal with how pissed you'd be if we did that? What do we have to gain vs. what do we have to lose.

Do a test. Register a name with, say namecheap or godaddy. Purposely put in bad info (not bogus looking but just wrong). The file an complaint with ICANN. See what happens. (And that's after someone files a complaint how or why would someone care to do that?)