Geektools whois gateway has shut down after a 25-year run
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Re: Geektools whois gateway has shut down after a 25-year run
#2Also, GDPR has put potential legal liability pressure on registrars and most have dropped having any useful WHOIS information.
Re: Geektools whois gateway has shut down after a 25-year run
#3sudo apt-get install whois
whois google.com
Re: Geektools whois gateway has shut down after a 25-year run
#4Also, GDPR has put potential legal liability pressure on registrars and most have dropped having any useful WHOIS information.
Public who's details have become absurd. Register any domain and choose not to use domain privacy. Your inbox will fill up over the next hour with people wanting to sell you seo services or a new WordPress installation. I don't mean five or five or six spam emails, I mean you could see over a hundred umin the first hour . Such mailboxes are sure to become unusable .
Re: Geektools whois gateway has shut down after a 25-year run
#5Also, GDPR has put potential legal liability pressure on registrars and most have dropped having any useful WHOIS information.
Public who's details have become absurd. Register any domain and choose not to use domain privacy. Your inbox will fill up over the next hour with people wanting to sell you seo services or a new WordPress installation. I don't mean five or five or six spam emails, I mean you could see over a hundred umin the first hour . Such mailboxes are sure to become unusable .
That’s exactly why I’ve used an “admin@“ address for decades now on email registrations. It has a filter that will then redirect anything from the registrar’s domain and junk anything else.
Re: Geektools whois gateway has shut down after a 25-year run
#6Also, GDPR has put potential legal liability pressure on registrars and most have dropped having any useful WHOIS information.
Public who's details have become absurd. Register any domain and choose not to use domain privacy. Your inbox will fill up over the next hour with people wanting to sell you seo services or a new WordPress installation. I don't mean five or five or six spam emails, I mean you could see over a hundred umin the first hour . Such mailboxes are sure to become unusable .
Don’t forget your physical mailbox too
Re: Geektools whois gateway has shut down after a 25-year run
#7Also, GDPR has put potential legal liability pressure on registrars and most have dropped having any useful WHOIS information.
Public who's details have become absurd. Register any domain and choose not to use domain privacy. Your inbox will fill up over the next hour with people wanting to sell you seo services or a new WordPress installation. I don't mean five or five or six spam emails, I mean you could see over a hundred umin the first hour . Such mailboxes are sure to become unusable .
If you register in a tld which doesn’t allow privacy (.net or .us? Forget which) everything leaks. Kiss goodbye to your phone number. I accidentally did this and got 50 calls within the first 8 hrs. It was insane.
Re: Geektools whois gateway has shut down after a 25-year run
#8Also, GDPR has put potential legal liability pressure on registrars and most have dropped having any useful WHOIS information.
Public who's details have become absurd. Register any domain and choose not to use domain privacy. Your inbox will fill up over the next hour with people wanting to sell you seo services or a new WordPress installation. I don't mean five or five or six spam emails, I mean you could see over a hundred umin the first hour . Such mailboxes are sure to become unusable .
emails? I wish. I get random calls from India for “web site design and seo optimisation” that got my digits from whois info.
Re: Geektools whois gateway has shut down after a 25-year run
#9Awww... this was my go-to since the 90s. I loved the simplicity of the place. Great nostalgia.
To be fair, I haven't use it much over the past decade or so mostly because the nature of my work has changed and the info has become increasingly useless over time.... but just a couple of weeks ago I gave it a go just to see if it was still around. I guess that test didn't age well.
Re: Geektools whois gateway has shut down after a 25-year run
#10Also, GDPR has put potential legal liability pressure on registrars and most have dropped having any useful WHOIS information.
WHOIS is still useful for telling you registrar, registration date, and nameservers. That's mostly what I ever used it for.