Moniker leaking private whois info?

You are being paranoid. There is no way they are going to say your name isn't "John Joseph Adams" if that is what you put down as an alias, or "Joseph James White" on another domain. You can legally use aliases to represent yourself as long as you are not using alias to commit crimes.

If you want to call yourself "James Robert McNabb" then you are "James Robert McNabb", there is nothing wrong with that and there is no way they would do anything about that.

No kidding, can't believe people still buy the old bullshit that Switzerland is secretive. A lot has changed in the world.

The darnedest thing just happened to me. A domain of mine with moniker just auto-renewed privacy... but I specifically set it not to auto-renew privacy. In fact, I don't even have the domain name set-up for auto-renew because I don't want it anymore. But hey, at least privacy is actually working on the domain name...

I dont know,seems these 3 are most common when it comes to adult webmasters.

I'm definitely noticing privacy autorenewing separately from registrations with Moniker, when it seems like both would renew at the same time, but that's not wholly ominous in and of itself.

Everyone - there was a privacy issue that was discovered yesterday however it has been fixed/corrected.

Please be aware privacy is considered a seperate sub product and billed as such. If you have privacy set up on your account, it's likely that your account has it set up to auto renew as well.

I'm asking everyone to please check their Moniker accounts to verify this. Privacy DOES autorenew separately from your registrations.

I am out of town today and tomorrow however if anyone is noticing privacy charges/renewals going through - it's because you do have privacy set to auto renew.
If you don't want it to renew, log into your account and turn it off. This can be done under the My Domains, Sub Products tab. If you need assistance doing this please contact support. I will be offline for the rest of the day so if anyone needs me, please email me at [email protected] as I have my Blackberry.

Less paranoid than simply being careful. ICANN doesn't follow some "registrar" law; they follow their own rules. By their rules they want a true, full name. Failure to not play by their rules can lead to loss of the domain. Why risk it?

What you describe is not an alias unless you at least sometimes go by that name in your personal or business life. If stopped by the police, for instance, you can't give them some name you just thought up. and say that's who you are. You CAN give them an alias if you're also known as that, but it's silly to think you can just give out any old name. An alias is not the same as a false name.

A business name, like your domain name, is an acceptable alias, IMO. You (or your operating entity) are automatically known as that, obviously, because you're present on the Web. You don't need to come up with a fake name that is clearly only used as a dodge (or why else use an alias).