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Somebody needs to create a service which does the following: - gives you an email address for the whois as a proxy - automatically follows the link given in t
by junto 11y ago
Somebody needs to create a service which does the following:
- gives you an email address for the whois as a proxy
- automatically follows the link given in the email and clicks the stupid button
- waits for the confirmation email
- if after 48 hours you haven't received confirmation then the system escalates it to a human proxy to click the stupid button (Turk maybe)
Reminds me of Lost
- talideon 11y agoThat's fine until they go rogue and use that to seize your domain as you've effectively established them as a contact. Then you're screwed.
- fweespeech 11y agoThat is true for all the whois protection services. You have no recourse if the registrar takes the domain.
- talideon 11y agoIf your domain is with a scummy registrar, then you're screwed regardless. It has nothing to do with WHOIS privacy.
- talideon 11y agoBTW, you shouldn't use a third-party WHOIS privacy service. That puts you in breach of ICANN-mandated T&Cs as you've effectively provided bogus contact information to the registrar.
- bhartzer 11y agoRegistrars deal with this in a few different ways, I believe some will allow you to confirm only one email address if there are multiple domains in your account.
- hyperliner 11y agoLet me upgrade that service: - Generates real-looking names - Generates a "social live" across the internet, with pictures, Linkedin profiles, and "friends" - Generates "obviously valid" email addresses - Provides an email forwarding service to your real address as above - Provides a "Post office box" pseudo-service so that you can add that as your "real address" - Generates extensions for a (800) we all can use to as to protect our real phone numbers - Signs up to your registrar's information and updates it You just got yourself a "valid" info set in the eyes of ICAAN (without having to pay anon services).
- cdcarter 11y agoWouldn't this be paying anon services? Honestly, this would work without the social aspect. Just wiring together a registered agent service (though used...improperly) and a registrar.
- bigiain 11y ago"- Provides an email forwarding service to your real address as above" Another suggestion - the service keeps a public gpg key you supply, and posts the email, after encrypting it to you, to usenet/pastebin/wherever searchable (perhaps by the key fingerprint?), and maybe publishes notifications of that somewhere distributed (maybe a has tagged Tweet where that hashtag is the key fingerprint?) Sign up over TOR, and you could have a pretty good "air gap" between you and any messages it receives for you. Wouldn't matter if they get subpoenaed or NSLed - they'd never be able to see who's _reading_ those messages.