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Originally Posted by accentnepal

To add a bit of detail:

When the feces hit the rotary device concerning registerfly, a registrar that was taking people's money but not buying/renewing/transfering the domains, after a great deal of stalling and blame shifting, ICANN(t) tried to get the master list of domains held by Registerfly. Apparently some domain owners who used privacy were not listed and lost their domains.

BTW Registerfly is still in business, last time I checked.

Whois is spam bait, but I am surprised how little I get from that source. I occasionally get a excited snail mail letter telling me that I need to renew and that this company will kindly do the honor for me for $60. - -I do not see how they can afford the stamps. I even got one spam letter that used the graphics from my little town's city hall envelopes - return address was different, they just stole the picture!

I voted, "no" on WhoIs Protection. I don't use it not anymore. I learned my lesson the hard way.

RegFly is still taking people's money and not registering anything. I lost hundreds of domains there during that disaster. Thankfully, I got rid of most of that F***ed up ProtectFly before the site went crazy. I'm lucky I didn't lose everything. It is cheaper to just get a hardware solution. I got a Barracuda to filter out all the junk mail. It stopped over a million pieces of spam last year. I have a lot of domains, so the yearly update charge costs a lot less than a privacy protection service.

This is from Wikipedia.org. I think it is something to be concerned about.:
Problems (with WhoIs)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHOIS

"Privacy: Registrant's contact details, such as address and telephone number, are made easily accessible to anyone over the internet for most top-level domains. Although some registrars offer private registrations (where the contact information of the registrar is shown), under ICANN rules the registrar or "private registration" company is then legal owner (lessor) of the domain."]