I hate private registrations. They defeat the entire purpose of whois and mostly protect spammers against compliants.

As it turns out, it also hurts registrants who use it.

I already knew this as I've had to help clients who had allowed ignorant web developers to set it up for them and then lost the information (godaddy.com pushes it as if it will save your social security number from getting stolen). If you have private registration and don't know your way around the registration process, you'll end up paying someone to solve your problem.

Personally, I'm glad. If you use private registration unwittingly, then you ought to complain to your registrar for pushing this dung heap in your face. If you use it knowingly, then I have only one suggestion: FUCK YOU. If you're a web developer who foists this crap on your unwitting clients, please hang up your copy of DreamWeaver or whatever lame crap you use and go out and shoot yourself.