GoDaddy leaks private WHOIS registration information!

[Domainate.com]

http://abdutarabichi.com/godaddy-leaks-whois-privacy-registration-information

Not good to say the least! Hope those of you doing private reg's there are using Gmail.

 

[Rockefeller]

Same with netsol

 

[draggar]

I use two email addresses - one as the general / public whois contact (gMail) and one for the registrar contact (not published - for password resets, receipts, invoices, etc..).

I've only given the contact one to GoDaddy and Moniker yet for some reason I get spam on it (and it's not an easy email to guess plus it's on a domain that forwards to another one). I can only guess either GoDaddy or Moniker has sold customer information to another party which is scary because what if a hacker made a good bid on the information?

 

[adonivideo]

nice

 

[WINNA]

Thanks for the heads up... Glad to be almost out of that sinking ship that they call a registrar.

 

[jdk]

Sinking ship? lol
I don't think a week has gone by they have lost more domains than they have gained.
Where do you have your domains, Moniker? Talk about a sinking ship. Look at their trend.

I'm curious as to what ship you are moving to.

 

[Namebrander]

Godaddy stink period. Going back as far as the registerfly debacle,hell even further. Their dumb upsell upsell upsell site.
GD paid $1 each for every dn retrieved from registerfly, how many folks never got their names back off GD. Never mind recent "gun fun" exploits. Even the tide will turn for a bloated behemoth like GD and the sooner the better.

 

[WINNA]

Godaddy stink period. Going back as far as the registerfly debacle,hell even further. Their dumb upsell upsell upsell site.
GD paid $1 each for every dn retrieved from registerfly, how many folks never got their names back off GD. Never mind recent "gun fun" exploits. Even the tide will turn for a bloated behemoth like GD and the sooner the better.

Well said...Wheres the fckin like button on this forum...

 

[radioz]

Well said...Wheres the fckin like button on this forum...

Up at the top.

 

[DaddyHalbucks]

I never considered domain privacy to be secure.

 

[Bill Roy]

I passed on the information from the op's post a couple of weeks ago about this to GD via my account Rep and apparently this is fairly common practise, there appears to be no security risk when they looked into it.

 

[mattbodis]

Wow that's quite a discovery.

 

[DaddyHalbucks]

It's nothing that affects me.

 

[katherine]

On top of that godaddy charges a lot for privacy that is worthless, cause they will lift it at the slightest unsubstantiated threat.

 

[Cash Is King]

i never considered domain privacy to be secure.

agreed!

 

[namenut]

So now "SlowDaddy" can/should be called "ShowDaddy" .... Not that hold a large private portfolio but I
do expect the few names under said agreement would be some what private. This hardly seems a useful
layer of anonymity.

 

[DomainNameShark]

There has been a lot of bad press about GoDaddy recently. I have since transferred all of my domains and plan to use different domain registrars from now on.

 

[Bill Roy]

DomainNameShark, I actually am transferring some domains to GoDaddy, they are my preferred registrar. I have always found them helpful and attentive and indeed I find my account Rep superb (there you go Jacob). Seriously most of the 'bad press' has had little or anything to do with domain registration, and indeed the press about support has been excellent in general. I even read one post recently where someone complained about one case of bad support from GoDaddy then went on to say that this was so unusual he (the poster) blamed the support representative personally and not GoDaddy as a whole.

 

[Dopa.com]

http://abdutarabichi.com/godaddy-leaks-whois-privacy-registration-information

Not good to say the least! Hope those of you doing private reg's there are using Gmail.

Agree!

 

[EUROPEAN]

I moved all mine to Internet.bs after the boss of Godaddy shot the Elephant , after doing alot of research It seems there privacy is one of the best online having never divulged a domain owners details.