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I sometimes use whois multiple times in a day lol. Should it exist? Maybe not, probably not, but that doesn't stop me from using it when I want to try to do so

by dkh 2y ago

I sometimes use whois multiple times in a day lol. Should it exist? Maybe not, probably not, but that doesn't stop me from using it when I want to try to do some sleuthing. Most of the time though it doesn't work because they have privacy enabled. I did get screwed once with certain TLDs not being able to enable privacy. I had registered a .at domain to use with a video site I had that at the time was reasonably popular and going viral fairly regularly. I hadn't realized beforehand that privacy wasn't possible, but once I learned, I didn't love it, but I wasn't sure if it would matter that much. I was wrong. I was getting calls and emails regularly from random people on the internet who found our content on reddit or whatever and decided to do some sleuthing

genewitch 2y ago
How do you hold both of those ideas in your head at the same time?
- stavros 2y ago
  Well, they did say it probably shouldn't exist. Also, I'm just blown away by how much people here don't consider having fake info as an option.
  - Aachen 2y ago
    That works great until the TLD decides you need to hop through extended verification and fork over an identity card and a recent (3 months) invoice showing the address you signed up with 12 years ago, freezing your domain such that you can't update the information to be your current address even if you wanted to share that with the world (because privacy doesn't exist and GDPR doesn't apply in French-run/France-headquartered AFNIC). There's no time to dispute it or go back and forth: the initial email already comes with the announcement that your domain will go dark if they haven't processed your response after 14 days. Oh yeah, and you need to submit this via plain text email. If you send a link to the pdf scan, so that you can remove it after they've viewed it, that gets rejected (but it will be downloaded by an overseas system, run in the USA, within seconds of sending it), they'll respond that it specifically needs to be an attachment so that it will linger in their inbox forever If you use fake info in relation to WHOIS data, you also need to be prepared to forge an identity document (a pretty bad felony in most countries per my understanding) That said, on most forms I enter fake info because they they have no legitimate use for it anyway and they also can't compare it against anything. Buying a game or event ticket needs my address? For what, linking my purchase to a profile they're building? Nah, fake address it is

by dkh 2y ago

genewitch 2y ago

How do you hold both of those ideas in your head at the same time?

stavros 2y ago
Well, they did say it probably shouldn't exist. Also, I'm just blown away by how much people here don't consider having fake info as an option.
- Aachen 2y ago
  That works great until the TLD decides you need to hop through extended verification and fork over an identity card and a recent (3 months) invoice showing the address you signed up with 12 years ago, freezing your domain such that you can't update the information to be your current address even if you wanted to share that with the world (because privacy doesn't exist and GDPR doesn't apply in French-run/France-headquartered AFNIC). There's no time to dispute it or go back and forth: the initial email already comes with the announcement that your domain will go dark if they haven't processed your response after 14 days. Oh yeah, and you need to submit this via plain text email. If you send a link to the pdf scan, so that you can remove it after they've viewed it, that gets rejected (but it will be downloaded by an overseas system, run in the USA, within seconds of sending it), they'll respond that it specifically needs to be an attachment so that it will linger in their inbox forever If you use fake info in relation to WHOIS data, you also need to be prepared to forge an identity document (a pretty bad felony in most countries per my understanding) That said, on most forms I enter fake info because they they have no legitimate use for it anyway and they also can't compare it against anything. Buying a game or event ticket needs my address? For what, linking my purchase to a profile they're building? Nah, fake address it is