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Just a reminder of how powerful the whois command is and what it can say (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Make sure that you tell your registrar that you want to be anonymous.

Edit: wow I missed the phone number censor. I guess that proves my point even farther.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Bout ten years ago I pissed off some GNAA idiot trolls on twitter, so they did a whois on my domain. I never updated it from my mom’s address so over the course of a week my mom got three cases of qurans and several large pizza orders (10+ pizzas each time), all of which she declined to accept.

Lucky she didn’t get swatted, though this was before they became such a big thing.

You bet your ass all my domains now have privacy settings enabled.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Depending on your domain, the registrar might not be legally allowed to hide this information. Make sure to know the rules of the TLD you use, as well as the registrar.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Or the opposite: They're hidden by default! You cannot look up .ch and .li domains unless you submit a manual request.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It depends. For example, whois wasn't GDPR compliant (this EU law about sharing of data). Now, most of them are hidden, just in case.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

TIL there's a command for that. You can use third party websites too. Most scummier domains are registered through third party providers though, which then share just that companies details to hide the actual owners.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I recommend https://njal.la/ for a privacy respecting domain name provider. It was established by The Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

What it should look like:

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Seems pointless if everything is redacted.

Whois is extremely helpful for non-malicious purposes just like phone books used to be.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

That was before the Internet turned hostile by default. It didn't last, sadly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

yeah... not having an readily available admin-c will just lead to the domain and ip getting bad reputation in case there is the slightest issue

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Ever seen this movie scene about a guy who got his name in the phone book?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Usually the information has to be public is the registering entity is a company, and can be private (and I think it's by default) if it's by an individual. It shouldn't be possible to have private company registrations. This of course depends on the TLD, but might have implications on some jurisdictions independent of that (like when using a site of any TLD inside the EU).

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Great for spammers too. I’ll stick with my privacy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Rfc2142.