How private are your information?

[techahben]

Just wondering, there is this service offered by registrars to protect your whois information from the public.

If your domain name is related to scam and crime, your information would be available to the law enforcers. But what about the other registrars? Will they be able to know the actual contact details behind a registered name?

What worries me is that since Google is now also a registrar for domain names, wouldn't it be very easy if the were able get these information via automated process and all your domains related to you would be available to them?

Anyone knows the indept to how these sytem operates?

 

[scrsteven]

Google is a registrar? I didn't know that..or didn't remember? Is that true

 

[OvenMitt]

Google is a registrar? I didn't know that..or didn't remember? Is that true

Google is, but not to the public.
No worries, folks

 

[Epic]

Just wondering, there is this service offered by registrars to protect your whois information from the public.

If your domain name is related to scam and crime, your information would be available to the law enforcers. But what about the other registrars? Will they be able to know the actual contact details behind a registered name?

What worries me is that since Google is now also a registrar for domain names, wouldn't it be very easy if the were able get these information via automated process and all your domains related to you would be available to them?

Anyone knows the indept to how these sytem operates?

Well I mean if your site is all about how to kill people than you should worry. But just owning a domain probably won't get the police coming after you

 

[Dave_Z]

If your domain name is related to scam and crime, your information would be available to the law enforcers. But what about the other registrars? Will they be able to know the actual contact details behind a registered name?

Let's put it this way: registrars, for the most part, won't share any info with
one another if a domain name that's with them is using their privacy services.
Only one possible way for one registrar to get the info from another is "mutual
cooperation" between the 2.

What worries me is that since Google is now also a registrar for domain names, wouldn't it be very easy if the were able get these information via automated process and all your domains related to you would be available to them?

Anyone knows the indept to how these sytem operates?

If you mean will Google extract the WHOIS info from a domain name using its
registrar's privacy service, then the answer is no. Again, unless there's "mutual
mutual cooperation" between Google and the other registrar, the latter has no
reason or incentive to share it with another except via legal options.

Incidentally this was talked about in Webmasterworld.

 

[wasistdas]

I'm open person and have nothing to hide, so I dont care

 

[0xide]

i have nothing to hide, but google and yahoo are the same company different devisions so if you worry about them you should worry about yahoo too...

 

[techahben]

Isn't it comforting to know that our big brother google is able to find out all your sites if one day they decide to change their policy on search quality and they wipe out all your sites with one sweep.

 

[cache]

I think current default information is too detailed. Information such as your email or maybe your city in my opinion is useful to other people (so that an potential buyer to contact you).

 

[Xyzer]

I hate giving out any details apart from my postcode, why for domaining, do they need my postcode?

 

[sm]

legal issues aside, i dont think google can casually access domain owner details from other registrars. If that were the case, there would be little point in getting a whois protection in the first place, other than to prevent spam.

 

[mole]

I hate giving out any details apart from my postcode, why for domaining, do they need my postcode?

So that the CIA satellites can trace all these cybersquatters? :lol:

 

[.X.]

ID protection is usless if a DN is used for a crime and ect,They will turn over evidence anyway,They have to,I don't use the privacy protection,No real reason to imo,Identity thiefs will get info one way or the other if they really want it.