So the other day I get woken up by a phone call (my monosyllabe stalling was probably much longer in reality, but you get the gist):
Hi, can you tell me how to get in contact with Foo Inc.?
Uh…
You're hosting their images, and we're trying to get ahold of them.
Um, just a sec.(I don't remember hosting any images? Have to log onto my server and look around.)
This is Jason from Bar Webdesign in New York, BTW.
Okay, which company were you looking for, again?
Foo Inc., they're on instacontent.net.
Wait, did you say .net? Haha. That would explain why I have no idea what you're talking about: I only own the .com!
Oh, sorry. Bye.
What I want to know is: do all New Yorkers preemptively dispense with the smalltalk, have no ability to laugh at themselves, and talk really fast (at least relative to sleep-addled cognition)? And is this anecdote an argument for or against putting real contact information into WhoIs?