Ruling on '.us' Domain Raises Privacy Issues, washingtonpost.com, 4 Mar 2005

“People who own Internet addresses ending in ".us" will no longer be allowed to keep their personal contact information private, a move that has drawn objections from some consumer advocates and from companies that sell third-party Web registrations. The decision, issued by the Commerce Department (news - web sites) in February, bans the practice whereby Web site operators pay a "proxy" company to register an Internet address for them. Instead, people who own .us addresses must provide their phone numbers and street addresses for listing in publicly searchable databases by January 2006 or lose their registrations.�

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