Whois Protection

[PoorDoggie]

Hia,

I have heard about protecting your identity with whois protection (protectfly.com) and it seems pretty good.

Is there any way that you can hack through this? I want to start a site, but I don't want there to be any way that people can find out my personal details. (name, email, address... etc)

I am just wondering if anyone knows of any way people can get through and gain my personal information?

Thanks a lot
Tom

 

[Riceman]

They would need to sub-peona protectfly with a court order in order to release your info. I would think this would only occur if something illegal was being done with the name or maybe lawyers looking to file trademark lawsuit

 

[Virgil]

That's right; as long as you use it for a lawful purpose, you shouldn't worry about. I have some website's info protected that way for a bunch of reasons and I've never had any problem with that (most of the sites are personal projects, and none of them is even obscure in it's purpose).

 

[Chris]

Hia,

I have heard about protecting your identity with whois protection (protectfly.com) and it seems pretty good.

Is there any way that you can hack through this? I want to start a site, but I don't want there to be any way that people can find out my personal details. (name, email, address... etc)

I am just wondering if anyone knows of any way people can get through and gain my personal information?

Thanks a lot
Tom

Tom,

Like everyone else has already mentioned, you're fine as long as you're using it in a legal manner and not something illegal that could find you in legal issues.

However, also keep in mind that if you create nameservers off one of your names you own then make sure you have a whois block on that one also. If you don't then someone can use the nameservers to do a whois and trace it back to you as well if it's a name that you own. The easiest way though is just to use the nameservers your host provides to you.

I wasn't sure if you had created your own or not, but thought I'd make you aware of that way someone could find your info as well.

All the Best,
Chris

 

[JoshHendo]

You should be fine unless you get it AFTER you buy the domain name, becuase if someone has a account at whois.sc they can see past whois info.

 

[PoorDoggie]

You should be fine unless you get it AFTER you buy the domain name, becuase if someone has a account at whois.sc they can see past whois info.

do you mean because whois.sc stores the domain info?

Erm... if I get it whilst buying the domain, will that work?

Chris, thanks for the info, but I wouldn't know how to set up nameservers, let alone what for... :lol: Thanks though!

 

[Chris]

do you mean because whois.sc stores the domain info?

Erm... if I get it whilst buying the domain, will that work?

You would be fine if you get the whois privacy at the same time registering the name. What he meant is if you registered the name but then later did the private whois. If you did it later then your details would probably already be cached in the whois history for that name. :tu:

Best of Luck,
Chris

 

[PoorDoggie]

thanks a lot people! reputation on its way!

 

[OvenMitt]

They would need to sub-peona protectfly with a court order in order to release your info. I would think this would only occur if something illegal was being done with the name or maybe lawyers looking to file trademark lawsuit

Nope. Just a threat of a lawsuit that you don't respond to correctly.

But overall, somewhat of a publicity stunt, but not bad.