When you register a domain, the registrar has your identifying information. However, you can choose domain privacy protection if you don’t want the names, addresses, phone numbers, etc. of website ...

Domain name registrars and registries might soon be changing their mantra from, “I think ICANN,” to, “Maybe ICANN’T,” when it comes to providing publicly available WHOIS information for domain name ...

Among such far reaching effects, it seems likely that the GDPR is going to adversely affect Whois and its critical role in intellectual property enforcement. Whois information provides a host of ...

The topic of does domain registration impact your search engine rankings is nothing new. We have covered this topic here at least a handful of times, especially since Google became a registrar. But a ...

A Google Apps bug leaked hidden WHOIS registrant information in the clear, putting close to 300,000 domain owners at risk for identity theft, phishing scams and more. Google has notified hundreds of ...

Cisco security researchers recently revealed that since mid-2013, a bug in Google Apps made the WHOIS information on 282,867 domains available publically despite the fact that owners had specifically ...

Certificate authorities and browser makers are planning to end the use of WHOIS data verifying domain ownership following a report that demonstrated how threat actors could abuse the process to obtain ...

Every since Google became a registrar in January 2005, SEOs wondered how Google would use the whois data. In mid-February we reported that Google admitted to using registrar data to "increase the ...

I got an email today which looks like one of those ICANN required verification emails that registrars have to send out to domain holders. ICANN requires registrars to send a notice to verify whois ...

When Internet regulators approved a new set of top-level domains last year, the idea was to create a piece of cyberspace that was a bit less congested than the saturated dot-com domain. But as ...