Private whois: How to know the owner?

Question

Is there a way to get information about the owner of a domain with private whois ?

Answer 1

Other than by court order, I would hope not.

Otherwise it's not very private.

Answer 2

You could send email to an administrative address at the domain. GoDaddy's private domain service simply forwards that stuff on to the domain owner, and I suspect that is the usual behavior. If you get a reply, then you know.