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You see this a lot these days (though I suppose it's just more visible now). Another example is people selling political t-shirts (many offensive or obnoxious) to both sides of a partisan divide.
Indusrty connections aside, it's not a good look that thaf the CEO of a privacy company did not register domains with some form of Whois privacy.
It’s largely unnecessary for corporate owned domains. You know who owns it from the website they publish.
You see this a lot these days (though I suppose it's just more visible now). Another example is people selling political t-shirts (many offensive or obnoxious) to both sides of a partisan divide.
Indusrty connections aside, it's not a good look that thaf the CEO of a privacy company did not register domains with some form of Whois privacy.
You end up in a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. Complete with monthly fees.
Since it seems very difficult to try to get a leaked identity removed, maybe try to hide a tree in the forest?
I wonder if there are reputation protection companies that try a different strategy: for every user that requests their service, prop up thousands of fake identities with the user's name, but each with some inconsistent profile that are almost, but not quite, entirely unlike the original user. So if someone search for a person, their search results would be flooded with garbage. Since it seems very difficult to try t…
A not-so-secret dirty little secret is that many of the reputation management agencies also own many of the public records websites that publish mug shots, court records, and so on. When you hire them to remove that information from the internet it puts you into a cycle of being removed from one or two of their website and added to something else. You end up in a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. Complete with month…