Until such time that the ICANN community can come with a whois policy which abides to laws, a proxy service is still the best workaround to protect your privacy. Those who provided this service in the past have usually done it for a fee.
As usual on these matters, my registrar, Gandi, has been at the forefront of user minded service and has set up an a free proxy service. This is fine: privacy should not be something for which one has to pay, especially of it is guaranteed by law. My new whois record for one of the domains I manage now looks like this:
Tech ID:PVW6-GANDI Tech Name:Patrick Vande Walle Tech Organization: Tech Street1:Whois Protege / Obfuscated whois Tech Street2:Gandi, 15 place de la Nation Tech Street3: Tech City:Paris Tech State/Province: Tech Postal Code:75011 Tech Country:FR Tech Phone:+33.170377666 Tech Phone Ext.: Tech FAX:+33.143730576 Tech FAX Ext.: Tech Email:34a2773f812b49da3ab0513d28d86b82-401854@contact.gandi.net
Great ! Now my home address and private phone are no more visible on the Internet through the whois. No need to cheat.
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Really good news. I’ll give a try, sure.