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Most of the whois hiding services cost money, so if I get this “service” for free now, I don’t have much sympathy with the whois guys. If it’s about contacting
by Lunatic666 8y ago
Most of the whois hiding services cost money, so if I get this “service” for free now, I don’t have much sympathy with the whois guys.
If it’s about contacting people, they could make the abuse@ or webmaster@ address mandatory, then you can separate it from your normal email accounts, because the majority will be spam anyway.
- amaccuish 8y agoOr offer an anonimiser service in place of your email, which just redirects to your actual email. Not everyone hosts email on their domain.
- nabc45 8y ago>Most of the whois hiding services cost money Where? I never paid a dime
- nicky0 8y agoGodaddy
- tazard 8y agoAt least in Canada, this is absolutely not true. https://ca.godaddy.com/domainaddon/private-registration.aspx https://ca.godaddy.com/domainaddon/private-registration.aspx
- tazard 8y agoSorry, I thought you were replying to the, where it's free parent, not the where it's not free parent. Please ignore what I wrote earlier.
- ry_ry 8y ago123reg charge for whois privacy too, as do a bunch of other registrars. Always felt like mild extortion.
- pc86 8y agoPlease do share the registrar that blocks all whois data for free!
- panarky 8y agoDreamhost https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/216458407-Enabling-WHOIS-privacy-settings https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/216458407-Enabl...
- yread 8y agogoogle domains
- haldora 8y agonamesilo [1] provides free whois privacy on domain name purchases. Classic interface, but very cheap. :) [1] https://www.namesilo.com https://www.namesilo.com
- virusduck 8y agoI love namesilo, and I find the interface refreshing/charming. The price is right, too! As an aside, .us addresses cannot be registered anywhere with privacy controls enabled.
- jessaustin 8y agoIt doesn't seem that .us addresses would be subject to GDPR? One could see .com as an edge case, even though really Europeans should just appreciate the fact we let them on our internet b^), but .us is not in doubt.
- fwn 8y agoTrue for .us. however: There is currently (as far as I understand) no way to hide whois data for .de (German) domains. So that might get interesting.
- nabc45 8y ago
- Kwpolska 8y agoWhere are the free services? And are they really free, or are they silently included in the domain cost? I’ve yet to see anyone beat Namecheap’s $13.75 for .com (2nd year onwards, with protection).
- fencepost 8y agoIt's probably a question of whether the privacy features are separately charged or are bundled in a standard plan that's a bit higher priced than "bare" registration. Since control panels, reputation, policies and other services like DNS are also things that can be bundled together, it's going to be difficult to say whether or how much you're paying for just the privacy component.
- djsumdog 8y agoname.com charges extra for "whois protection." The e-mails I have registered for various contacts are pretty much spam buckets. You pretty much need a separate VoIP account to handle all the scam calls/voicemail too. I get some calls/e-mails so quickly I wonder if they have some kind of live stream setup for registrations on some TLDs.
- rkibbe 8y agoGoogle Domains includes private registration - no additional cost. The service is simple with transparent (although not the best) pricing. Have a few domains there now. And yes, I'm aware that Google and privacy are strange bedfellows in the same sentence.
- neya 8y agoI second Google domains. For some domains it's worth the money, for others not so much. But still, you get really good DNS and a really nice + simple interface and the fact that I don't need to remember another pair of username/password makes it well worth it.
- test6554 8y agoBut who knows who really owns the domain? Google Knows Who...
- judge2020 8y agoThis is like saying that GoDaddy, Namecheap, or any of the countless number of other domain registrars own every domain registered with them. Performing a fraudulent transfer or DNS change would destroy their registry business and cause a PR nightmare.
- curun1r 8y agoI've been hesitant to use Google for services like this after hearing about incidents where Google disabled everything associated with a Google account after detecting some violation of their ToS. I'd hate to lose my domain name because I, say, used the Maps API in some way that Google didn't appreciate. Google needs to be better at siloing their products before I'd consider using them for something that mission critical.
- natch 8y ago>after detecting some violation of their ToS. And often it's not a violation, it's an alleged, unspecified, un-counterable data point hidden in Google's cloud with no way for the user to determine what it might have been.
- apocalyptic0n3 8y ago> If it’s about contacting people, they could make the abuse@ or webmaster@ address mandatory What about domain owners like mysql who have no email attached to their domains? I only have two personal domains, but I have never had a need for an accounts to be associated with the domains nor do I think I would ever check it. Perhaps have those two account DNS lookups always go through the registrar who then forwards to your account email? Even that doesn't seem very fool proof, though.
- nodesocket 8y agoAWS Route 53 domains also provides "private" whois for free included in the cost. .com are $12/year .net are $11/year .io are $39/year
- homero 8y agoI use Porkbun which has free privacy and the pricing is almost wholesale.
- nodesocket 8y ago.io domains are cheaper on AWS Route53 domains than Porkbun. $39/year AWS Route53 and $47.68/year on Porkbun.
- kelnos 8y agoThere's no need for this. The SOA DNS record of every domain already includes an email contact (more by convention than requirement, I think?). It's mildly annoying because they have to replace the '@' with a '.' due to limitations in what can be in the field, but it's pretty easy to extract the correct information.