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Whois May Be Retired, Says ICANN
- brianr 19y agoI think the privacy advocates have gone way overboard on this one. WHOIS is an incredibly useful database; among other things, it provides a way to find people squatting on your trademarks. There's a simple solution already in place for privacy within WHOIS... almost all registrars offer private registration, and many of them offer it for free.
- Kaizyn 19y agoThe point of getting rid of the WHOIS database is to make it harder for people to see what the large businesses are doing with domain registration, etc.
- gb 19y agoUnfortunately that's not true, I have domains with two registrars/hosts, neither of which offer private registration at all. When registering UK domains you can opt not to show private information while leaving the tech/admin details in there, I'd be pretty happy if they introduced something like that universally.