He widened highways, expanded hospitals for children and ex-servicemen and poured taxpayers' cash into such causes as the University of South Florida (USF) and national bone-marrow registries.
Such registries make it possible to uncover trends or long-term problems in the population that may be missed in smaller samples.
Christian Quest, who launched the project, doubts addresses are sufficiently exciting to attract enough volunteers to keep it up to date, but hopes to get firms and government agencies to share their data.Concerns about privacy may also slow the creation of open-address registries.
In 1994 Congress ordered all states that had not yet done so to set up sex-offender registries or lose some funding.
In 2006 it passed the Adam Walsh Act, named for a six-year-old boy who was kidnapped and beheaded, broadening the categories of offence for which registration is required and obliging all states to upload their registries to a national database.
It will, she wrote, "create lots of work for lawyers, marketers of search-engine optimisation, registries, and registrars.
Since it limits the total share of each district that can be owned by foreigners, many land registries are playing it safe and rejecting all foreign purchasers.
In a study published in Nature in February, Google demonstrated how this technique was able to predict flu outbreaks in America a week or more before the government's Centres for Disease Control did.Such "rumour registries" are useful, but any leads must be validated by boots on the ground.
CORE wants registries around the world to compete to handle registration, and seven new, top-level domains, including ".firm" and ".info" to be introduced, to make it easier to register firms in different businesses, but with the same name.The Commerce Department's plan, devised by Ira Magaziner, Bill Clinton's Internet guru, draws on CORE's ideas.
The thieves managed to break into the accounts in which companies keep their credits on some of these registries and transfer the credits to other accounts, from which they could quickly be sold on.
Europe's registries were closed down on January 19th, to reopen only when better security standards are in place.
