Hiding Whois record

[pixelman]

Anyone knows which registrar can help to hide the contact information listed in whois record, for privacy protection?

Any info or link will be very much appreciated.
Thank you.

 

[MarkMitford]

If any registrar does offer this they will be in breach of their contract with ICANN.

At the moment registrars are supposed to maintain accurate WHOIS information (and many state in their end-user acgreements that they can cancel domains with invalid WHOIS data).

See the announcement ICANN made today detailing how they are going to begin enforcing those provisions and stating that ICANN is providing a central web page for reporting invalid WHOIS data.

http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-03sep02.htm

 

[Brujah]

I think we'll see more of them opt for the method GoDaddy uses for one. Making it possible for you to get the Whois information but not easy for the bots that hog your server resources.

 

[DomainSage]

Just let spammers mail you and then sue them ;-)

 

[PrimeDNR]

Dear All

Register with Godaddy if you don't want your personal details to be easily checked by others by mean of standard whois (except the one offered by Godaddy).

Here is my finding:


Last Name First Name

Registered through: Go Daddy Software (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: XXXX.COM

Domain servers in listed order:
NS52.NEWSBOOK.NET
NS2.NEWSBOOK.NET

That's all.

Oh my god, you have to visit godaddy in order to check the details (after inputing the password).

I think too protect and too less information.

Any comment on this!

Regards
PrimeDNR

 

Go Daddy just looks out for their customers more then any other registrar i've seen.

But, i've even seen others do this limited info for WHOIS records, it's becoming common place.

 

GoDaddy is in violation of their ICANN agreement if they don't offer a port 43 whois service.

Registrar shall provide an interactive web page and a port 43 Whois service providing free public query-based access to up-to-date (i.e., updated at least daily) data concerning all active Registered Names...

-t

 

[Who-Wiz]

Originally posted by PrimeDNR
Register with Godaddy if you don't want your personal details to be easily checked by others by mean of standard whois (except the one offered by Godaddy).

Try going to FreeWho.com and type your
same GoDaddy domain name into the Whois query.

There you go.

Hm...

~ W|Z

 

[PrimeDNR]

Originally posted by Who-Wiz


Try going to FreeWho.com and type your
same GoDaddy domain name into the Whois query.


~ W|Z

Thanks a lot, its fast and look exactly like the Daddy's.

How can you do that?

Is is connect whois.godday.com or what ?

Please kindly help me.

Regards

PrimeDNR

 

[Who-Wiz]

I don't believe it is anything special.

I think Go Daddy is just selective about which results it returns to IP addresses that have a certain amount of requests coming from it on a regular basis (except its own).

~ W|Z

 

[fizz]

Thanks Who-Wiz: previously I wasn't able to view GoDaddy whois results because I couldn't view the password they provided, but FreeWho.com does it in a breeze.

I like the link to Overture and the link pop option will be great when you have it running

 

[mole]

If you mean masking your whois from the public to prevent abuse or fraudulent use of personal records by unscrupulous marketeers mining the whois, I do believe you can use eNom for that in the - so long as the records the registrar has of you is accurate.

 

[Who-Wiz]

Originally posted by fizz
I like the link to Overture and the link pop option will be great when you have it running

Thanks, Fizz! Now, if only the .us search wasn't still busted. I'll post when its all wrapped up. I'm having too much fun with the glossary. The Overture search and Google button works though!

~ W|Z

 

GoDaddy's port 43 whois appears to change it's output if you are a high-volume query user. Our whois script alwo works fine on GoDaddy domains - though we did get one report that it was foobar, but when we checked, apparently we were "unblocked" again. Verisign does the same thing - as do others. It it supposed to prevent whois data mining.

-t

 

[Whois-Search]

.us works on our site :

http://www.whois-search.com/index.php?query=fizz.us

"the best whois on the net"

 

[EroGenius]

Originally posted by Whois-Search
.us works on our site :
http://www.whois-search.com/index.php?query=fizz.us
"the best whois on the net"

LOL! Whois-search knows how to kick a man when he's down!

~ EG

 

[fizz]

Originally posted by EroGenius
LOL! Whois-search knows how to kick a man when he's down!
~ EG

LOL You're right, it is working

http://www.whois-search.com/index.php?query=whois-search.us

 

Where were .us whois searches NOT working? They have never stopped working on our site either.

-t

 

[Who-Wiz]

Originally posted by thewitt
Where were .us whois searches NOT working? They have never stopped working on our site either.-t

I'd commented that they were NOT working at FreeWho.com yet (we're still in Beta and focusing on other things), and Whois-search felt duty-bound to proclaim (by implication) how lame that was. :laugh: I don't think it had any bearing on any other normal whois service which should clearly have .us searches working! It was a jab.

I'll get you for that, B! :razz:

W|Z

 

Pixelman,

You may want to check out www.domainsbyproxy.com

This service will allow you to hide ALL WHOIS information....