I dont understand why are you constantly providing disinformation or give misleading info as they have that data under their 'about us' page? Domain name registar is irrelevant. They have provided their address and company info, people have been visit them! Domain owner registar have nothing to do with a company, it could be that its registered to owner personal home address or old slovenian. I dont find it concerning, if you do, you are free to ask them whyband maybe to explain to you what is a domain name and what is a company what has separate register regulated by laws.
And you are mixing two different issues, ident theaft is one thing and mtgox situation another.
Like other poster said, you hammer honest exchange and spreaded in this short conversation a lot of false claims.
Link
https://www.bitstamp.net/about_us/Give bitstamp company address, not what you have posted!
If you do not want to submit verification docs then dont, but do not provide false information and tag them as suspicious!
I didn't mean to indicate that the whois info came from the web sites. I presented both 'about us' web pages for comparison.
There does not seem to be some sort of a hard and fast regulation that EU companies have to separate their domain registry from other parts of their business if that is what you are trying to indicate:
Registrant Name: Heinrich Wunram
Registrant Organization: Siemens AG
Registrant Street: Wittelsbacherplatz 2
Registrant City: Muenchen
Registrant State/Province: Bayern
Registrant Postal Code: 80333
Registrant Country: DE
Postal & Mail Contact
Siemens AG
Wittelsbacherplatz 2
80333 Munich
Germany
When a company is not trying to hide or obscure data, the above is about what I would expect. When they are we typically see something more along the lines of what we see with Bitstamp. Just sayin'.
I doubt that I am the only one in Bitcoinland who does some cursory checking of things like this, nor would I be surprised if Bitstamp lost some customers by not being a little more straight-up about their operations.
No, i do not find this concerning. Domain can be anybody. Info regarding their company is visible and on their site where it belong. They did not trie to hide it or obscure it! Its there, are you blind?
Iam sure bitstamp does not lose sleep over somebody who find it as a red flag. Accuse them when they really do something wrong and alarming, untill then, they are good. Again, if you do not want to be verified in order to trade on bitstamp its fine, go somewhere else, but dont tag them as dishonest or that they try to hide something.
If you are so worried then go ahead and email privacy protection and ask them to comment.
I do not see how relevant is of domain registar privacy? Important thing is that they are registered company what can be verified online and with reall office where people have visit them. Privacy protection can mean many things what is beyond your understanding.
Company siemens does not exchange bitcoin to fiat and its really irelevant example.
And again, there is no reason of bitstamp to hide domain registar unless is under bitstamp owner name or some other concerning thing what can be very easy to understund. I do not want to enter assumption game and to me bitstamp is great and honest exchange.
I have said all i had, enough is enough.
