[Pagan]

you know.. it is funny. I have not lost any sleep over having the private whois removed. It will save me money in the long run. If I am going to run a risk over being fired for something done completely within the law, then there had better be a line ahead of me for those who come into work drunk, high, or both. I do not know of anywhere that it is legal to drive under the influence, yet I have coworkers who do it daily.

Most outside this industry don't know enough or care enough to go digging. You pretty much have to know the domain is there in most cases to find the owners -- especially for the casual users. Is it worth the stress over it? Heck no. Quietly register it.. work with it on your personal time and ignore it while you are on the boss' dime. As to the info being bogus... get caught and it is grounds for blacklisting. You can thank all the spammers and such for this, btw.

The only time I came close to crossing the boundary on this current job -- we had an issue with employees using company equipment to go looking at porn. Silly fools.. if they had asked, I would have given them links to safe stuff.. but nooooo. They had to go grab the crappy stuff that puts virus' and spyware and other garbage on the computers. Almost killed 2 computers -- repair bill came to over $500 between them. I did have to give the Field Operations Director a fast lesson in how to use parental controls.. and made sure I stumbled when asked to provide a URL. Yeah, right.. me.. a 10 year vet of this business. I could not think of a single URL except the old whitehouse.com one - and that is no longer a porn site. Like Ms. Straight-and-narrow-nose-to-the-grindstone Child Support worker would know what a porn site is ... right..

Point is.. the only person this is going to impact is you. It is no more relevant to the boss than the color or persuasion of your underwear. As long as you are breaking no rules or laws, it is also none of his danged business.