The thing that I have never understood is, you can always register a secondary email address if you don't want your primary shown on there. You are not forced to use your primary email address when you register for a domain. As long as you can access the email you provide, you can set it up with a new domain. In all honestly, GoDaddy or whichever provider is still going to have your address on file, even if they mask it from public eyes. So, in either case, you are still going to be held accountable if you violate any laws or do something illegal on your site.
I don't believe that everyone's email should be shared with the world, however believe that they should be held accountable if they are doing something illegal on their site. That's is pretty much the extend of GoDaddy's responsibility to the registrant. If the registrant chooses to hide their email from public eyes as they only want to use their primary, that is their choice. I'm sure if it was any other way, they would probably just create a secondary email address as I outlined above specifically for the site registration and may either not check it or will forward it to their primary address (depending on factors such as spam, angry messages, etc). They may not choose to check it at all if people start sending hate messages to it. It's there essentially as a dummy account. A placeholder in order to register a site. Again, it's their choice.
I have to admit though, Antoni was being a genuine douchebag here. After all the coverage that Spatry gave him and this is how he pays it back... It's sad. Whatever, his choice if he wants to run his reputation as a developer down the toilet.
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The thing that I have never understood is, you can always register a secondary email address if you don't want your primary shown on there. You are not forced to use your primary email address when you register for a domain. As long as you can access the email you provide, you can set it up with a new domain. In all honestly, GoDaddy or whichever provider is still going to have your address on file, even if they mask it from public eyes. So, in either case, you are still going to be held accountable if you violate any laws or do something illegal on your site.
I don't believe that everyone's email should be shared with the world, however believe that they should be held accountable if they are doing something illegal on their site. That's is pretty much the extend of GoDaddy's responsibility to the registrant. If the registrant chooses to hide their email from public eyes as they only want to use their primary, that is their choice. I'm sure if it was any other way, they would probably just create a secondary email address as I outlined above specifically for the site registration and may either not check it or will forward it to their primary address (depending on factors such as spam, angry messages, etc). They may not choose to check it at all if people start sending hate messages to it. It's there essentially as a dummy account. A placeholder in order to register a site. Again, it's their choice.
I have to admit though, Antoni was being a genuine douchebag here. After all the coverage that Spatry gave him and this is how he pays it back... It's sad. Whatever, his choice if he wants to run his reputation as a developer down the toilet.