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No More WHOIS scams?

Posted by Hemos on from the beat-back-the-man dept.

scholztec writes "It seems it's no longer necessary to have your personal information flapping in the breeze. Domains by Proxy will allow your private information to remain private. It's owned by the same people as Go Daddy Software. Basically, they provide a proxy ownership service, which means that their info goes in the WHOIS, but you still retain full rights to your domain. Of course, some people may miss the domain telemarketers, or those lovely renewal scam notices from VeriSign and Domain registry of America. Check out articles at: The Register, UDRPlaw, and Domain Name Essentials; or Go Daddy's press release (PDF format)."

3 of 22 comments (clear)

  1. What happened to the verisign inccurate whois? by leuk_he · · Score: 3, Interesting

    /. reported in this article that verisign was urged to correct whois data. Anyone heard any response from verisign about false whois data?

  2. patents and ownership by nocent · · Score: 4, Insightful
    From the Register article:

    Users of the service can have email sent to the address in the Whois forwarded to them, and can even have DBP act as a snail-mail proxy, for an additional fee. Parsons said the company has patents pending on the technology behind the service.

    What technology would that be? The e-mail forwarding? The snail mail forwarding? E-mail forwarding of course is already done and any smart person would know not to put their everyday e-mail in the whois database. As for snail mail forwarding, places like Mailboxes etc have done that for years.

    Another thing about this is the question of ownership. By not entering your own information into the database, they are legally the owners which means that you are at their mercy. Yes, of course they say they are just acting as your proxy but what happens if they go under? What happens if one day they decide that they'd like to keep your high traffic domain name for themselves?

  3. Spammers may use this to hide by www.sorehands.com · · Score: 3, Informative
    Spammers and other scam artists can use this to hide from people, but GoDaddy has a strong anti-SPAM policy:
    Go Daddy also may in its sole discretion and without liability to you delete the registration of any domain name during the first thirty (30) days after registration has taken place. Go Daddy may also cancel the registration of a domain name, after thirty (30) days, if that name is being used in association with spam

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    Fight Spammers!