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Whois to Be Scrapped? Are Your Domain Names Safe?

Whois to Be Scrapped? Are Your Domain Names Safe?

DannoDanno sends link:

Whois May Be Scrapped to Break Deadlock

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8SJ3TC80&show_article=1

Dan

***FS*** Of course, owners of valuable generic names see public facing whois information as “vital” to providing clarity of title and ownership record relating to their valuable intellectual property.  The updated date tells you the last time somebody changed the whois record and the whois info ostensibly indicates the name’s ownership. It’s 2007 folks..  Names are changing hands for thousands, hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars.. There are real debts and leverage backing these purchases and sales.  What’s to stop a devious registrar from shuffling valuable names away in the middle of the night without third party whois services like domaintools.com to troll the millions of whois records to find subtle changes and keep the gatekeepers honest?

This entry was posted by frankschilling on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 at 3:53 PM and is filed under Domain Names (Domains). You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.


2 Comments

  1. Paul says:
    October 30, 2007 at 4:10 PM

    It’s sort of like doing million dollar real estate deals without title insurance :)

  2. AJ Martin says:
    October 30, 2007 at 6:15 PM

    I don’t need think DomainTools is an answer – track YOUR OWN Portfolio with DomainResearchTools software. What we need is access to our select registrar via a secure login.