Privacy and domain names...

Worrying about having to list my personal contact information on my domains was something that concerned me, of course you can pay an additional fee to keep that information private but it bothered me that you had to pay an additional fee to make that happen. According to this AP News article, relief may be not far away for those of us who want a way to remain private yet not have to face additional fees:

Under the endorsed proposal — some six years in the making — domain name registrants would be able to list third-party contact information in place of their own — to the chagrin of businesses and intellectual-property lawyers worried that cybersquatters and scam artists could more easily hide their identities.