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Discussion on: Explain WHOIS like I'm five

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Antoinette Maria

This is probably less important for someone who knows their site will be taken down within a day for phishing or distributing malware though right?

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Sergey Kislyakov

This is still important for those who look for WHOIS privacy and thinks that putting random stuff in the "domain holder" form isn't that bad. I did it once and received a mail that if the info is wrong, your domain may be removed. I reverted it immediately because:

  1. I didn't know about that.
  2. I didn't want to lose my domain :)

Of course those who spread malware on the Internet doesn't care about that. I guess they have some methods to register domains without putting a lot of info and don't get banned, but I'm not one of them so I don't know :)

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Antoinette Maria

I mentioned it to reaffirm that a WHOIS record is not a reliable source for attribution. Just because there's a name and phone number for a malicious site in a WHOIS record doesn't mean it's real.