: Whois — Can I use a general delivery (poste restante) address? As far as I know, ICANN wants every domain owner to put their contact information into the WHOIS database. I'm fine with revealing
As far as I know, ICANN wants every domain owner to put their contact information into the WHOIS database. I'm fine with revealing my real name, but having to submit the address where I live seems like a privacy killer to me. Wouldn't ICANN be satisfied with a general delivery address? Do they actually contact people by paper mail without a prior notice?
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Of course, I know about the existence of WHOIS privacy services. Let's assume I don't want to use one for some reason.
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That sounds like what we'd call in the US, a PO Box, and that would satisfy the ICANN requirement. As long as you can be reached using the contact information, it is considered valid.
ICANN requirements passed along registries, registrars and finally the registrant are that you can be contacted at the address given, in the (honestly never occuring) case someone sends you a letter there.
If your address accepts mail for you that you can collect, you fulfill the requirements.
See www.icann.org/resources/pages/faqs-f0-2012-02-25-en : email is clearly more important.
The "code of conduct" is however ICANN "Registrants' Benefits and Responsibilities" at www.icann.org/resources/pages/benefits-2013-09-16-en that states you need to provide acurate information.
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