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November 6, 2007, Associated Press

Whois Studies Approved, Privacy Deferred

A panel on Internet names voted Wednesday to defer long-simmering questions on whether names, phone numbers and other private information on domain name owners should remain public in open, searchable databases called Whois.

...Steve DelBianco, executive director of NetChoice, a coalition of trade groups that represents tech companies, including eBay Inc., Oracle Corp. and Time Warner Inc.'s AOL LLC, said the rise of proxy services shows "the market is working faster to address privacy concerns than ICANN processes ever can."

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