Privacy worries fuel domain name concerns

Friday, 14 June, 2002

Web users are worried that changes to a list of who owns which .co.uk web domain will put their personal privacy at risk. 
Later this year, Nominet, which runs the .uk domain, is planning to expand the amount of personal information people can find out about owners of these domains. 

Some fear the changes will put them at risk of identity theft and endanger the people they run sites for. 

Nominet said it was still discussing the best way to makes changes to its database and that most other registries already supplied far more information about domain holders than it was planning to do. 

Every web domain, such as .com or .uk, has an allied database that lets people look up the owner of a particular site. 

Before now, Nominet's database has only returned basic information about an owner such as their name, when the name was registered and the servers hosting it.

More at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2037948.stm