clickshops - 4:18 pm on Oct 22, 2011 (gmt 0)

If they did use whois data, then what would stop anyone harming a competitor by registering a few sites with identical data of a competitor and then developing some poor quality sites, thus damaging the competitor site?

I was always under the impression that no outsider could directly harm your site with links from poor quality sites, so if Google did use whois data, then technically a site could be harmed from outside interference!