posted on March 30, 2005 03:36:54 AM new
From my web hosting provider:
Dear Valued Go Daddy Customer,
Today I have the unfortunate responsibility of informing you that there has been a decision made by bureaucrats of a Federal agency that takes away your right to privacy as guaranteed by the United States Constitution.
This decision was unilaterally made by the National Telecommunications and Information Association ("NTIA"www.ntia.doc.gov without hearings that would determine the impact on those affected, and delivered without notice — in short, the NTIA decision was made without due process of any kind. This is exactly how our government is not supposed to work.
The effect of this decision is to disallow new private domain name registrations on .US domain names. In addition, if you already own a private .US domain name registration, you will be forced to forfeit your privacy no later than January 26, 2006. By that time, you will need to choose between either making your personal information available to anyone who wants to see it, or giving up your right to that domain name.
I personally find it ironic that our right to .US privacy was stripped away, without due process, by a federal government agency — an agency that should be looking out for our individual rights. For the NTIA to choose the .US extension is the ultimate slap in your face. .US is the only domain name that is specifically intended for Americans (and also those who have a physical presence in our great country). So think about this for a moment. These bureaucrats stripped away the privacy that you're entitled to as an American, on the only domain name that says that you are an American. I am outraged by this — you should be also.
If, like me, you are outraged at the NTIA's decision to strip away our constitutional right to privacy, www.TheDangerOfNoPrivacy.com will provide you with a petition to sign. (Only your name will be published, your address and email information will be kept private.) This Web site also provides a very easy way for you to send either a fax or an email, expressing your outrage, to your Congressperson and Senators. This is all provided at no cost to you. All that is required is for you to take the time to visit www.TheDangerOfNoPrivacy.com sign the petition, and send the fax or email to your legislators.
On my personal Blog, www.BobParsons.com there are a number of articles where you can learn more about the NTIA's unfortunate decision and what you can do to help get it reversed.
I also will be talking about our right to privacy on Radio Go Daddy, our weekly radio show that debuts today, March 30, at 7 PM PST. To find out how to listen in, please visit the Web site dedicated to the show, www.RadioGoDaddy.com.
You can be sure that I, and everyone at GoDaddy.com, will do everything in our power to get the NTIA decision reversed. However, we need your help. Please visit [url]www.TheDangerOfNoPrivacy.com[/ulr] to sign the petition and express your feelings to your Congressperson and Senators.
posted on March 30, 2005 10:27:34 AM new
I agree we have a right to privacy but in some instances like webpages need to be registered. Take for instance the Red Lake Shooting. After some investigation and searches they found out there might have been a conspiracy. Doesn't the public have a right also to know who owns the domain name? Remember the constitution is over 200 years old and there wasn't the internet. Can someone explain why a domain name has to remain private?
Son of tribal chairman arrested in Red Lake shootings
By STEVE KARNOWSKI
Associated Press
RED LAKE, Minn. (AP) - The teenage son of the tribal chairman has been arrested in connection with last week's shootings on a Minnesota Indian reservation, a law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation said Monday.
Louis Jourdain, son of Floyd Jourdain Jr. and a student at Red Lake High School, where most of the killings took place, was arrested Sunday, the source told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The younger Jourdain was arrested as part of an investigation into a potentially wider plot, the source said.
A biography of Floyd Jourdain posted on his Web site in February 2004 gave Louis' age as 15, meaning he would now be 16 or 17.
Nine people were killed in last Monday's attacks before 16-year-old gunman Jeff Weise, also a student at the school, took his own life.
Weise, who had a history of depression, first shot to death his grandfather and his grandfather's girlfriend, then went to school and killed a security guard, a teacher and five students.
Investigators said last week that Weise acted alone in the rampage on the Red Lake Band of Chippewa's reservation.
posted on March 30, 2005 10:42:02 AM new
I don't understand how you have made that connection Libra. From what I see, the only involvement this website had in this arrest was providing a biography of the father which included an age of his son. I seems only to have been a source used to garner age information which was included in the body of the site, not in the registration information.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
posted on March 30, 2005 11:51:11 AM new
Tribal chairman: Son innocent in Red Lake shootings
By AMY FORLITI
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
RED LAKE, Minn. - The chairman of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa said Tuesday that his son, arrested this weekend as a possible accomplice in last week's shootings on the reservation, is innocent.
"My heart is heavy as a result of the tragic events that unfolded here at our nation," Floyd Jourdain Jr. said, in a statement issued through the band. "But it is with optimism that I state my son Louis's innocence. He is a good boy with a good heart, who never harmed anyone in his entire life."
The younger Jourdain, 16, was arrested by federal authorities on Sunday.
Authorities began to suspect that Wiese may not have plotted the attack by himself after examining his computer and e-mails he exchanged with Jourdain, this official said. More arrests are possible, said this official and the law enforcement official.
The law enforcement official said FBI behavioral analysts who were brought into the case also doubted that Wiese acted alone, based on personality traits they identified.
Floyd Jourdain said his son was "incapable of committing such an act."
"As events unfold, it will be proven that the individual who committed this horrible crime did so of his own choice and that he acted alone," the tribal leader said in his statement.
"I strongly believe that my son will be cleared of these charges."
Holly Cook, a tribal spokeswoman, said Jourdain would not be available for comment beyond the statement.
On Tuesday, it was difficult to find people who knew Louis who would talk.
"Of course we know Louis, he's one of these boys' friends, but we have nothing to say," said Gayle Downwind, whose son, Sky Grant, knew Weise.
High school principal Chris Dunshee said the FBI has not told him about the arrest. But he said Louis was not a discipline proble, and didn't seem to be part of the same circle of friends as Weise.
"He's one of those kids that I didn't have a lot of contact with, because he really wasn't a discipline problem. He was a pretty good student, to tell you the truth," Dunshee said.
"I just really feel sorry for Buck," he said, using Floyd Jourdain's nickname. "My heart goes out to him, he's such a good guy. If it could happen to his son, it could happen to anybody, because Buck is a good parent."
Dunshee also said the district's two elementary schools would reopen on Monday, but that the high school complex, which includes the middle school, might be closed for the rest of the school year. He said the district is considering an extensive remodeling to make the high school interior look different than it looked on the day of the shootings.
posted on March 30, 2005 11:58:32 AM new
Part of an article from CNN. If you want to read the rest the url follows.
Among the leads authorities were following were postings attributed to Weise on a neo-Nazi Internet site. The postings professed admiration for Adolf Hitler and decried interracial mixing on the reservation.
Web names are already registered. They get renewed annually. This has nothing to do with that. Your personal information - ALL OF IT - will be made available to whoever wants it. I mean WHOEVER! Your neighbor, strangers, etc. You need to go onto the web site and really read it.
posted on March 30, 2005 12:19:43 PM new
Libra - you are comparing apples to oranges. The postings that Weise made have no relevence to the registration of the domain. There is a huge difference between member registration which is kept confidential (i.e. I cannot pull up your name address and telephone number just because you are a registered member of Vendio) and domain registration (which allows any individual to pull up that information with a simple WhoIs search).
Domain registrations should be allowed to remain private for a number of reasons. There is absolutely no need whatsoever for the public to be able to access that information at will. In the cases that you have sited, even if they were actually relevent, as part of a police investigation it would take nothing more than a supoena for officials to get the information if needed.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
