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The deceptive response the NTIA is providing to Congressional inquiries.
Over 10,000 of you took the time to write your Congressperson and Senators. As a result many legislators have
written the NTIA inquiring about the decision to eliminate .US privacy. When legislators have written the NTIA in connection with
your complaints, the NTIA has been replying that they only recently discovered that private registrations were being offered, and
that private registrations were never authorized in the .US domain.
The NTIA letter does not mention that private .US registrations have been
available for over three years. NeuStar (the .US
registry operator) was well aware of this fact, because GoDaddy.com provided them with a letter detailing how GoDaddy.com would
maintain Nexus information for private registrations way back when we started offering these registrations. We can be sure that the
NTIA has been well aware of private registrations since then also.
This reply to Senatorial and Congressional inquiries literally disguises the fact that the NTIA just pulled one over on all of us
(without due process and without hearings of any kind), and makes it look like they are enforcing an agreement that has been in
place for years. It makes no mention of, and completely disguises that the reason .US private registrations are not permitted is
because the NTIA forced all registrars to sign a new agreement in February 2005 which forbids them. It's a really slick move.
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