Girish Gangadharan

How the hell did they get all this info? Half of it is outdated but still…domain privacy anyone?

Well… i guess the following lines as stated on the aboutus.org site should explain everything.

In addition to this site, if you would like to prevent your information from showing up anywhere, you may wish to contact your domain name registrar and purchase a privacy service which most of the majors domain name registrars have. That doesn’t deal with historical information which may already be out there, but at least it deals with it on a go forward basis.

For people that are not serious about spending those extra couple of bucks for private registration, here are a few tips that might help.

The information listed on your domain name has to be made publicly available per your Registrar�s agreement with ICANN, the international governing body of domain names. Providing false information will violate the registration agreement and could lead to the cancellation of your registration.

Most of the major registrars out there offer a solution to help protect your privacy. They offer something called private domain name registration service (usually for a relatively insignificant cost) which will list them as your proxy and thus it is their information (name, address and phone number) that is displayed in the public domains out there, for example, WHO-IS directory. Remember, you still are the real owner of your domain.

A small price to pay for peace of mind. Hope this helps someone.