Re: [ga] Bulk Whois Data Issue

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

WXW and all assembly members,

William X Walsh wrote:

> Wednesday, Wednesday, April 17, 2002, 9:10:37 PM, William S. Lovell wrote:
>
> > Absurdity reaches new heights.  One can also keep one's name out of the
> > phone book by not having a phone, or out of the Motor Vehicle Department's
> > lists by having neither a driver's license nor a car. But both of those
> > entities
> > have procedures for protecting their user's privacy. The Internet, or indeed
> > a domain name, are rapidly becoming necessary parts of doing business, and
> > indeed a healthy means for self expression by private citizens. To
> > suggest that
> > one must necessarily give away all rights of privacy just because some
> > registrar
> > sees yet one more way to squeeze out a buck is unconscionable.
>
> Just as there are examples supporting your view, there are better
> ones supporting the opposite view.

  Says who?  Where is your or anyone's recorded legal opinion that
would support such a statement?

>
>
> In the US, every state makes property ownership information available
> as a matter of public record.

  Not true.  In Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, and 11 other states
property that is held in trust is not required to provide this level
of granularity of ownership information as a matter of public
record.  In Texas for example, if you have filed a homestead act
filing on the property you own or have a mortgage on, you are also
not required to provide this level of granularity for public review,
and such records on said property are thereby protected as such...
I have three separate pieces of property, including my home
residence filed as such and two of them are in a trust for instance.

>  They are required by statute to provide
> that information in bulk format for a fee, and there are companies out
> there who specialize in providing that data in a searchable and
> downloadable database format.

  There are 15 states where this is not true in all instances.  Texas
and Oklahoma are two that I am most familiar with...

>
>
> You cannot own property without having it listed publicly.

  Again not true!  (See above)

>  If you
> want to own it and protect your privacy, it is entirely up to you to
> do what is necessary to do that, by forming a shell company for
> instance.
>
> Access to those databases are not expensive at all, as a matter of
> fact.
>
> When you own property, people have the right to be able to get that
> information.  The same with a domain name, which is the internet form
> of "property."

  A domain Name is a string of characters that represents and address.
It is not by legal definition a "Form of  tanbable Property" under the law
presently.  ANd it is not likely to become such in the near term.  One
could argue that a Domain Name is intellectual property of a type.
That however is not equitable to "Real or Tangible Property".

>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info>
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>

Regards,

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