How do we know Moniker is safe?

[wisedude]

Everyone is always saying only to do a whois at moniker, because the others will sell your queries. How do we know moniker is safe?

 

[Ronald Regging]

Everyone is always saying only to do a whois at moniker, because the others will sell your queries. How do we know moniker is safe?

Moniker prides itself on supposedly being the only registrar never to lose a domain... It also runs in a fairly specialized niche as far as registrars go. Meaning, they are mostly trying to appeal to big business and domainers, unlike GoDaddy who takes a wide-audience marketing approach. So their entire reputation is built on security and domainers... It's very doubtful that they would sell whois searches for a quick buck and risk ruining their entire business.

 

[-REECE-]

Everyone is always saying only to do a whois at moniker, because the others will sell your queries. How do we know moniker is safe?

Do a few thousand whois searches there, then if none of your names are taken, you can conclude that either:

A) Moniker is safe
B) You're really bad at picking names

Never had a problem with Moniker myself.

 

[bricio]

Never had a problem with Moniker myself.

neither me

 

[Dave_Z]

How do we know moniker is safe?

Ask them.

 

[wikes82]

if you're really worry...
why don't you use a whois client, like this one here
http://www.gena01.com/win32whois/
it's free....

 

[lzy]

I second Moniker. Majority of my names with them. :D

 

[AussieDomainer]

Moniker rocks, hundreds of names there and not a problem. Never had a name stolen and never had the names that I have checked being stalked.

 

[Smiler]

I had a couple names taken from me at Namecheap. It really blew me away. Now after reading this thread I will start using Moniker. Thanks for the info guys.

 

[OctaneInv]

Do a few thousand whois searches there, then if none of your names are taken, you can conclude that either:

A) Moniker is safe
B) You're really bad at picking names

Never had a problem with Moniker myself.

:lol:

Any way, although most of my names are elsewhere, I only use Moniker for whois, nowhere else.

 

[-Raja-]

Moniker is the best, i'm slowing moving my whole portfolio there

 

[Achaias]

Yeah I had names stolen at both Godaddy and Namecheap. It didn't take me long to figure moniker was tight on name slips. Thats probably one of the most frustrating things =\.

 

[debra]

Please do not make the same mistake I did with Moniker. Do not blindly trust any registrar to do the right thing. Double check all transactions and save all your emails.

 

[jacal1]

Moniker answers the phone...and those who answer actually truly know what they are doing. I called once at 11:30pm on a Saturday because something didn't look right and the nice man who answered on one ring and helped me out happened to be Monte.

 

[Eric]

As has already been stated, Moniker is simply the best. I highly doubt they sell searches.. I trust Monte

I've been using them for nearly a year now and I've had 0 problems.

 

[Rebel-Man]

I can't speak for Moniker but all whois searches done at Rebel.com are completely confidential and are not logged or sold.

We also have 'never lost a domain'

 

[Mike]

As my domains near renewal dates at other registrars, i collectively move them to Moniker. Not one problem at Moniker, prompt, reliable and knowledgeable CS staff and last but not least, special NP pricing and some other features that i welcome very much.
Too bad that Moniker doesn't match prices from other registrars.... it would make the transition of .TV domains a lot more useful for me...

IB

 

[xman]

I have few hundred domains with Moniker and by far the best registrar I have ever dealt with.

 

[Smith]

Registers are generally as safe as your email & username / password combos.

If your email is compromised you're screwed regardless where your name is registered.

For username / passwords the higher the bit strength the better.

 

[DNabc]

I have hundreds of domains with Moniker, and never had any problem with queries as well.