Managing Mission - Critical Domains and DNS

Whois privacy

A major issue with registering a domain name is that your contact details (or those of your customer) are supposed to be true and valid contact details in order to fulfill the requirements of your registry's Registration Agreement, and those details must be published in the Whois database which is, as you now know, publicly accessible.

What on earth is a Whois?

My estimation is that the majority of internet users, even the majority of domain name registrants have no idea that the Whois database exists, let alone publishes their contact data for all to see. Sure, you may know that but the thing is, a lot of your customers may not.

The problem is that spammers, advertisers, and marketers mine the Whois database and extract data ...