How to keep Whois from being your stool pigeon

Whois .... Is Big Brother rearing his electronic head?

[mayor]

I own two web sites. If a search engine optimization sin is committed on one, the second can be accused of the same sin by association if the "judge" checks the Whois data base and sees that the same "sinner" owns both.

I also get a lot of spam e-mail and telemarketers calls that I highly suspect originated from culls of the Whois data base.

Maybe this is just paranoia but I'd rather be safe than sorry.

So is there some way to keep snoopers, spammers and Big Brother from knowing what web sites I own.

[kapow]

Thanks 2_Much

[conor]

I use www.bulkregister.com for all my registrations : they are cheap ($12) , you can tranfer over easily and best of all manage DNS and whois info on the fly !

[mayor]

Well, my paranoia was founded. Get the scoop here:

[webmasterworld.com...]

The Inktomi document shows how they came up with a black list of ip addresses associated with the same spammer. Ink, or whoever made the spam report for them, surely used the whois data base as one tool when they donned their big brother hat.

Great expose, Brett!

I wonder if Inktomi and others share black lists among themselves.

[dogboy]

It's funny that people aren't too concerned about the name they register under.... many say they use false names. If there was any problem with your domain, and it was registered under a false name you would have a h*ll of time resolving the issue, correct email or not.

The registrant is the person or entity THAT 'OWNS' THE DOMAIN.... if that name is registered in a name other than yours, or your legitimate and legal business name, you do not own it. That includes non-registered DBA names.

.... so be careful.