Court Rules That Using Domain Registration Privacy Services Repr...

Courtesy Techdirt  Tue, 11/03/2009 - 21:55

Lots of people use private registration services for domain names, that lets them register a domain name while keeping their own identities private.

There are plenty of legitimate reasons to do so: they don't want spam or they want to keep the identity of the site owners anonymous.

However, in a recent spam lawsuit, the Ninth District court of appeals has said that using such a service is "material falsification" of information :

[P]rivate registration is a service that...


 

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