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Fabien, maybe you need to look at it in a different way:
With the number of scammers, spammers, and tool bar jammers out there, hosts should be clearly aware of exactly who they are providing services to. If the DoJ or FBI or whoever it is shows up at the hosts door and their entire billing comes back as untracable, don't you think they would look pretty stupid?
Hosting is a contract (even month to month) and even in accepting a credit card or a check, companies need to have confidence in who they are dealing with. It is way to easy to open an account with a fresh stolen credit card, stick a bunch of toolbars or viruses on the account, spam the living shit out of the domain, and then run away after the damage is done with no way for anyone to track you down.
I would think that perhaps the company asking your for the ID has been burned once too often.
Alex
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