This suppresses the printing of specific whois information - such as name, details and email address. A remailer can then provide anonymous contact support. If a user wishes to contact a dot. GOD domain name holder, and that individual has elected to remain anonymous, the whois engine provides a web based contact template. This gurantees the domain contacts anonymity and privacy.
Privacy seems to be a serious issue with domain name holders.
GOD registry had over 7,000 domain names registered during the period 24 - 26 of May 2000. Of those registrations 3,724 were private. So those domain holders who requested a private record had to go the distance of clicking on the feature. So I feel confident the figures are reflective generally of internet user needs and demands. They just answer on port 43 - take a query and provide a response.