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Cybersecurity

When Fighting Fake Websites Means Exposing Real People

Imagine registering a small blog, a nonprofit’s donation page, or a side business website, and discovering that your home address and phone number are now one search away from anyone who wants them — not because you did anything wrong, but because a court thousands of miles away decided that hiding that information makes fraud too easy. That is roughly the situation domain registrars say they now face because of a ruling from the Delhi High Court, and it is why GoDaddy, Namecheap, and other companies that sell website addresses for a living are pushing back hard.