The WhoIS would still show who the registrar is (GoDaddy) ... it just
wouldn't publicly divulge the Admininstrator's contact info: ...
Marcio's address and telephone number. That could only be gotten from
the registrar (GoDaddy) and since Marcio knows who he himself is and
would be able to provide that personal information to them for ID check
purposes or whatever.... it wouldn't be a problem for him... only a
small expense to have that done.
Probably a good idea considering ID theft and Domain theft and the fact
that WhoIs info can be harvested en mass by bots.
The Registrars already had to change/ stiffen up procedures regarding
moving Domains because there were so many illicit scams involving
misrepresentation of Admin Contact. Scamsters were hijacking domains
and moving them to different registrars which then made the process
difficult to impossible to reverse without going to court.
It was used as an illicit attack vector for taking down a domain/
website or for extorting money from businesses since the out of service
loss of domain/ website and going to court costs so much in terms of
time and money.
db
tjpa wrote:
On Nov 23, 2009, at 3:08 AM, db wrote:
I forgot... if you do take administrative control over your domain,
you might want to exercise the option with GoDaddy to make your
administrative contact info, address etc.. private... an option that
you usually have to pay a few dollars extra for. It will prevent it
from being displayed in WhoIs lookups.
But if he had then we would have had one hell of a mess trying to
figure out where his domain is registered.
I find that my domain registrations are not a source of spam.
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