re: #75 RadicalModerate

That isn’t entirely true. In cases where there is a static IP leased via an internet service provider, the name of the user of that address is entered into the Whois information, even if there is no domain name registered. I found this out the hard way a while back when I had a static IP address for ADSL service via my local telco. Doing a reverse lookup on the IP address assigned to me gave all of my contact info (including name, address and telephone #). Needless to say, I wasn’t particularly happy about this, but was told that it was standard procedure.

Laws may have changed since then, which I hope is truly the case especially when ipv6 gets a full rollout, because all of those addresses are going to be statically allocated.

By the way, I used to have DSL here in LA years ago, and this was definitely not the practice then, even though I did have a static IP. A Whois lookup showed the owner as the ISP.

I think this is something rather unique to your provider at the time. I’ve done tons of whois lookups over the years and I’ve never seen an individual’s private info unless it was connected to a website and they didn’t use a proxy service. But never for someone just using a DSL connection.