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So ICANN require the information to be public? I thought they just wanted that you provide accurate info to the registrar.
Yes, it also needs to be made available via public whois.
Ugh, leave it to Namecheap to fuck up extremely simple UX. Instead of just giving me a toggle in the domain settings, I have to add WhoisGuard to my cart, once per domain (for the tens of domains I own), then go and select "10 years" in the purchasing screen (and wait for the entire page to reload) once for each domain, and then go through the entire checkout process to pay $0. Why not just let me click a single butt…
I used to have many domains at NameCheap and left after their redesign a couple of years ago. Huge spacing, many clicks to get to any information, and good luck trying to update multiple domains. Seems like they wanted to alienate their pro/bulk users in favor of the buy-a-one-page-website crowd. Route53 (using now) just makes more sense: easy programmatic access, unified billing with other services, included domain…
It's pretty absurd to require users to continually pay you money with threat of revealing all of their personal information publicly if they ever choose to stop paying you. I can't imagine many industries getting away with that except for registrars due to how the whois system has worked historically, but it's basically just extortion, keep paying us or you're doxxed. Whois privacy should be the default everywhere fo…
But at the same time, I reflect upon the days of the phone book, which most people on this board likely never knew. Your phone number and address would be listed by the phone company as part of your phone number subscription - an unlisted number would cost you more.
While times of change, and the searchability of the digital world does raise some other concerns, I still wonder how big a deal it is for ICANN to require this. Is it really revealing "all of your personal information" if you reveal the PO box, spam-trap "domains@" email address, and phone number of the domain owner?
If the registrar were revealing other info, I'd say "it's pretty absurd." But by default allowing people the info to contact you, as the owner of a domain name? That doesn't seem like extortion. Heck, if you own any real estate in the U.S., your contact info is listed in the tax assessor's database for all to find, same as in the WHOIS database.
Regardless, definitely an interesting topic to chew on.
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Their table to see how they stand up against competitors is hilarious! So many free privacy providers since ever like Dreamhost, Namesilo, BrandShelter, Marcaria (some TLDs), but yet you look at that table and you think "wow they are the only one". I take it as a deceiving advertising.
GoDaddy still charges more than 2X what we used to charge for WhoisGuard. We have always given away WhoisGuard for the first year of registration and have always been transparent about the renewal charge. However, now it is 100% free. No deception here. Teddy from Namecheap
It's pretty absurd to require users to continually pay you money with threat of revealing all of their personal information publicly if they ever choose to stop paying you. I can't imagine many industries getting away with that except for registrars due to how the whois system has worked historically, but it's basically just extortion, keep paying us or you're doxxed. Whois privacy should be the default everywhere fo…
They do provide a contact proxy service as part of this though. So that people who need to contact you can, just without learning who you are. Like a PO box. And again, you don't have to buy a domain. Or you can go through the same steps I've can to (eg) mask the sale of land and property with an intermediary company. People's recent outbursts at the WHOIS system strike me as odd. It's been this way for two decades.…
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Their table to see how they stand up against competitors is hilarious! So many free privacy providers since ever like Dreamhost, Namesilo, BrandShelter, Marcaria (some TLDs), but yet you look at that table and you think "wow they are the only one". I take it as a deceiving advertising.
So you get to choose who we perceive as our competitors now? We have a different view of them that doesn't match with yours. That's ok.
(Perhaps that's why I'm a customer - moved most of my domains from name.com over the past year).
That and your attention to social media marketing/community management = you're my kind of company.
It's pretty absurd to require users to continually pay you money with threat of revealing all of their personal information publicly if they ever choose to stop paying you. I can't imagine many industries getting away with that except for registrars due to how the whois system has worked historically, but it's basically just extortion, keep paying us or you're doxxed. Whois privacy should be the default everywhere fo…
When you put it that way, I nod in agreement. But at the same time, I reflect upon the days of the phone book, which most people on this board likely never knew. Your phone number and address would be listed by the phone company as part of your phone number subscription - an unlisted number would cost you more. While times of change, and the searchability of the digital world does raise some other concerns, I still w…
You can allow people to contact an owner without giving out their information. Craigslist does it.
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They do provide a contact proxy service as part of this though. So that people who need to contact you can, just without learning who you are. Like a PO box. And again, you don't have to buy a domain. Or you can go through the same steps I've can to (eg) mask the sale of land and property with an intermediary company. People's recent outbursts at the WHOIS system strike me as odd. It's been this way for two decades.…
And for two decades it's been a system for the lawyered class at the expense of grandpa Joe who just wants his own model train website and doesn't understand all the phonecalls and spam that came with it.
Grandpa Joe's understanding of it all is completely separate from any "class" considerations.