no whois privacy allowed for .us?

[droplister]

Got this email from namecheap

Dear dan (DROPLISTER),

Due to .US registry rule change mandated by the United States
Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information
Administration (NTIA), we are required to disable WhoisGuard on the
following domains.

WG EXPIRES DOMAIN
Aug 07,2006 futbols.us


Based on the rules, private registrations for .US domains will no longer
be allowed. To maintain the domain without issues, accruate contact
information should be provided to the registry. This rule takes effect
today (Jan 26, 2005).

To follow the guidelines, We will be disabling all .US WhoisGuards
after Jan 26, 2005 11:59 PM EST. So, you can either disable it manually
or the WhoisGuard will be automatically disabled after the above date.
After the WhoisGuard is disabled, your real contact information will
be showin in .US Whois instead of ours.

We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause. We will be glad to
provide you with a WhoisGuard subsription for the remaining months. You
will be able to use that subscription on any of your existing non US
domains. If you want to avail this option, please contact support.

futbols.us was my first .us, what was i thinking, sigh

[Domagon]

.US is more restrictive than .CN ... I'm serious.

I still have some .US domains in limbo, including f*ckcensorship.US - land of the free ... yeah right LOL!

Digressed a bit, but point is that .US is a relatively restrictive ccTLD and is among the reasons it should be avoided; not overly relied upon - they reserve the right to deactivate domains, and have exercised that right numerous times ... and probably will a bunch more times in regards to whois privacy violations.

Ron