| It is truly unfortunate that the companies in charge | | | | Commission, which is unable to rid the world of spam |
| of domain names make you pay to cloak your e-mail | | | | and then we have the domain name registration |
| address so that spammers will not get it and send | | | | companies refusing to try to limit people trying to get |
| thousands of spams to you every day. It seems | | | | your e-mail address from their databases. It seems |
| unfortunate that you should have to pay for | | | | to me that this is an identity theft issue and the |
| someone else who is manipulating the domain name | | | | scraping of e-mail addresses is used in illegal behavior |
| registration companies. It would make sense that the | | | | and therefore the Federal Trade Commission should |
| domain name registration companies would block out | | | | do something about it. There is no reason that |
| spider bots, which come in and scrape all the e-mail | | | | people should have to pay to hide their e-mail |
| addresses from their entire system. | | | | address. |
| But since the domain name registration companies do | | | | And to charge people between nine and $18 per year |
| not block out these people or try to skip trace them | | | | to hide your e-mail address on their domain name |
| to catch them because they are spamming people | | | | registration company's database is totally outrageous. |
| illegally, we all now have to pay extra money to | | | | They just are looking for a way to make more |
| cloak our e-mail address from the domain name | | | | money and socket to the consumer, without taking |
| registration public lists. Why should we have to pay? | | | | responsibility for protecting their customer's identity. |
| There is no reason these companies cannot simply | | | | It seems truly unfortunate that we have to deal with |
| hide the e-mail addresses from the public. That | | | | this and nothing is being done and still the consumer |
| makes no sense at all and they want to charge you | | | | has to pay through the nose. Please consider this in |
| a yearly fee. This is criminal in my opinion. | | | | 2006. |
| On one hand we have the Federal Trade | | | | |