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Has everyone tried doing a Godaddy whois lookup recently? Or at Network Solutions?
Let's talk about Whois results for domains currently residing at Godaddy registrar -- at every other registrar's Whois lookup I've tried today, the majority of contact information including email address has been removed. Then you're directed to Godaddy's whois URL for all that "missing information".
But the kicker is that when you go to Godaddy's whois lookup, you're confronted with seemingly endless ReCaptcha roadblocks that waste time and simply annoy. I know I've ranted about this ReCaptcha situation before (mostly to deaf ears), but I really have to wonder if these same roadblocks and missing information in most Whois results are what's confounding end-users and discouraging many of them from finding a domain's owner information -- specifically, email addresses. Because IMO, it sure ain't readily available anymore!!
Am I making all this up??
Let's talk about Whois results for domains currently residing at Godaddy registrar -- at every other registrar's Whois lookup I've tried today, the majority of contact information including email address has been removed. Then you're directed to Godaddy's whois URL for all that "missing information".
But the kicker is that when you go to Godaddy's whois lookup, you're confronted with seemingly endless ReCaptcha roadblocks that waste time and simply annoy. I know I've ranted about this ReCaptcha situation before (mostly to deaf ears), but I really have to wonder if these same roadblocks and missing information in most Whois results are what's confounding end-users and discouraging many of them from finding a domain's owner information -- specifically, email addresses. Because IMO, it sure ain't readily available anymore!!
Am I making all this up??
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