Think about it - if you were purchasing a domain with your name in the title, why would you register it using an anonymous registrant to hide your name?
Forgot to tick-off default option "Protect my privacy for 5.99$ per year" maybe?
That's one perfectly plausible explanation

It couldn't possibly be anything like
My guess is wishful thinking. Never change, bitcointalk, never change...

not really sure where you're going with this. so you're saying that craig can deny his ties to the domain? what would that do? his claims on satoshi's identity were recorded in a video.