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Whois is no longer such a good idea in this age of doxing anyway. I don’t know anyone who isn’t hiding their whois details and writing fake names and addresses.
by verroq 9y ago
Whois is no longer such a good idea in this age of doxing anyway. I don’t know anyone who isn’t hiding their whois details and writing fake names and addresses.
I had the misfortune of using namecheap and entered my real details once. Their whois privacy didn’t apply to the particular gtld and I only found out once the spam arrived. Never putting any real details ever again.
- return1 9y agoSpam is only the beginning. Wait until a crazy person gets angry at yuor site.
- egg_head12 9y agoOh no someone is sending nasty messages. If your on the web it's to be expected.
- return1 9y agonot when they start posting stuff with your name on social and other media, or threatening you that they know where u live
- petepete 9y agoIt's more of a problem if they know your phone number and where you live.
- jacquesm 9y agoIt's all fun & games until your doorbell rings.
- shiftpgdn 9y agoAin't that the truth.
- TazeTSchnitzel 9y agoOr you hear the police shouting.
- always_good 9y agoWhois data is also a dox/social engineering entry point.
- adrianratnapala 9y agoBut at least in Germany (and perhaps other EU countries?) website owners are required to provide contact details on the website. That's not exactly the same as domains and WHOIS, but it is similar enough to show that the German state (rightly perhaps) doesn't actually care about this sort of privacy.
- zaarn 9y agoIt's only the DACH region to my knowledge and you can still do a lot to prevent spammers from getting the details. That basically includes most of the default anti-scraping methods but since you only have one page to do it on, it's far simple to get 99% of the bad guys out (Spammers usually stop bothering once you get more advanced than ROT13 via Javascript or images designed to trip up OCR but still being readable)
- Mahn 9y agoSpam and scraping are not the problem, real people are. Getting a nutjob show up with a gun at your office because you are required by law to make your contact and address details public ain't fun, and not something that you can solve with ROT13 in Javascript.
- WA 9y agoSorry, but how often does that happen?
- zaarn 9y agoNot often enough that I care tbh. If somebody has legal beef with me, having a contact address to quickly resolve it is more important. Besides that, you can always simply get legal with the registrar who will get them your address anyway (or escalate until you find somebody who knows who you are)
- egg_head12 9y agoIt's mainly only the address you should worried about, but really a domain should have an owner associated with it. Do you complain about public records for who owns a plot of land?
- xeromal 9y agoYeah, but a million Indians don't send me a letter offering me construction services when I buy a plot of land.
- nightfly 9y agoI registered a new domain last month and since have been getting several spam telephone calls a day. The calls come from fake "local" numbers too so they are incredibly hard to screen. Some calls are companies trying to sell me web design services, and some, I think, are just trying to verify if this is "live" number so they can sell it off to other spammers. I can effectively can only trust new calls from numbers I personally know now, and have missed several real calls because I've stopped answering anything else.
- corobo 9y agoThese sorts of calls are infuriating when working at a web des/dev company. No we don't any need dev/design services -- we registered that domain because we're doing that! Looking to change the number out to a voicemail transcription number now that things are picking up so it's easier to filter out the duff calls
- xeromal 9y ago
- driverdan 9y agoPutting in false information is grounds for losing a domain. I don't know if anyone has lost a domain for fake info but it could technically happen.
- gwbas1c 9y agoHappened to me a week ago. I had to hop and scream at my host to get it back. This is why I'm happy the EU is twisting ICANN's arm. This information shouldn't be easy for spammers to harvest.
- Diederich 9y agowhois realms.org My personal info has been on whois since 1995. Am I ok?
- occams_chainsaw 9y agoRIP
- dawnerd 9y agoMines been online forever. Once it’s out ther once you’re done. No point in trying to hide from it I guess.