Only in Canada you say? Pity. (Score 1)

It's interesting that The Globe and Mail, an Ontario, Canada paper, talks about .eu privacy laws, and doesn't mention Canada's. I wrote about that here almost 3 years ago.

Milton Mueller's mention of some people about to have a big surprise probably refers to the likes of IP weenies like Marilyn Cade, quoted in the article, who have probably slowed down rational management of the namespace much more than all other factors put together (and banked more billable hours from rich newbie megacorps). They are so technically cluefscked that I once had to show Ms. Cade how to read the header on an email to trace it to its source IP, and she's wielded more power for years over the DNS via ICANN than almost anyone, including the ICANN (unelected) board.

Just recently I wrote about what the .name gTLD is now doing. They're charging $2 per 5 WHOIS snoop. Like I say in the article it's all about money, so let the folks who want a public WHOIS pay for it for a change. I also mention in my first link that repurposed ccTLD .ws (western samoa) was acting as a cutout proxy for its registrants for years without the world coming to an end. -g