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Who is going to miss WHOIS? I'm not. If it was opt-in I bet nobody would even reveal their details at all. At worst, you're just accidentally doxing yourself
by always_good 8y ago
Who is going to miss WHOIS?
I'm not. If it was opt-in I bet nobody would even reveal their details at all.
At worst, you're just accidentally doxing yourself and setting yourself up for a social engineering attack.
For example, name, email, and (wrong but close) address were enough to get someone into this guy's Amazon account: https://medium.com/@espringe/amazon-s-customer-service-backdoor-be375b3428c4 https://medium.com/@espringe/amazon-s-customer-service-backd...
- dredmorbius 8y agoMany interested in mitigating abuse.
- always_good 8y agoThey can report the domain to the registrar. Doing something with WHOIS info sounds more like a cloak and dagger fantasy. In reality, having your personal info in your WHOIS sets you up for abuse.
- dredmorbius 8y agoTying together multiple domains to a single authority (as here) is useful. Essential? Dunno. But definitely useful. Source: used WHOIS extensively in abuse mitigation and reporting. Registrars tend to DGAF, though I suppose blanket blocks of all domains from a given registrar, practiced widely enough, might have impacts.