GoDaddy Might Be Making Your Inbound Inquiry Via WHOIS Impossible

[jideofor]

Has anybody noticed that contact details of domains at Godaddy are being deleted or non existing? If you have your domains at Godaddy and receive inbound inquiries for domains that you have at Godaddy, this might be killing your chances of receiving offers/inquiries.

For some time now, they have been on this scheme. First you can't view them when you use WHOIS.COM and then they went to further to make it impossible to see contact details when you use ICANN whois search.

Who else has taken note? I might be wrong or my computer is giving off false information but I would like to know if I am the only one experiencing this.

 

[NamesMax]

Rob should be able to help you with any bulk changes on our end that you need to make.

He did the bulk changes for me at Go Daddy, Joe. It is the bulk changes in getting the whois info into Efty.com. They only see what is in the cached whois file. Thus they have no availability to even see that this name was just transfered to GD nor see its new expiration date. Rob has been great to work with. If not for him, those 500 names would not have Sen my Go Daddy account, but he doesn't get access to my Efty account. Thus your whois policy is prohibiting sales coming from me.

Oh and I do eventually get spam calls from my GD names. It seems to me, from my vantage point, that this policy has got to be hurting and not helping your revenues

 

[tonyk2000]

It is good policy but in fact would not and can not eliminate spam calls and e-mails. There are already "work at home" programs that are promoted on "make money easy" websites where members (mostly from low GDP countries) are decoding captchas, for the purposes of spamming forums and guestbooks. They are paid very little but it still works. Within <1 month after Jan. 25th, our Indian "friends" who are calling/emailing each new registration with dozens of solicitations will add GoDaddy alternative web-based whois parcing to these programs. So, if we think about it, with current and new port43 restrictions, GoDaddy is - in fact - in position of Don Quixote (the battle with the windmills).