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Harry,When you buy a domain name, often these fields are populated with the same person's data even if it's not relevant. When I buy a domain name (unless it's through domains.google, which does provide me free WHOIS protection), even if it's for a client, my name is in all three fields regardless of whether it's my website or a website I'm working on for someone else. Even my country-level domain names have different trustees because, while I am a French citizen (and thus, a citizen of the EU), because I am resident in the United States, I am required to purchase "trustee service" from my registrar in order to have a .fr domain name.
Harry,I don't mean to invalidate your argument but I must query you on one point. I can't imagine the Colorado Green Party has a number posted to a GPCO member who acts as tech support for the organization's website. In order for someone to be "tech support" and yet, be able to tell you that, they must be privy to the machinations of the Green Party of Colorado and have the authority to answer your questions. If you called their hosting company, you'd probably get the same answer that you'd get if you called mine asking about access to my websites, a nicer form of "piss off, you're not the account holder". This is because it's not the job of a web host to invigilate the content on their hosted accounts and this is also legally problematic. If a webhost had the ability to invigilate the access, as you state, they would be in violation of the Safe Harbour provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act which shield the webhost from liability.
