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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
well the deal with namecheap is that they offer free whois protection, i hadnt used them before but decided recently to try them out.. I wasn't really interested in the whois protection but it comes free with every domain so sure why not.
so the next day i go do a whois on my newly registered domain and lo and behold my real info is on there. now as i said i wasn't looking for whois protection so i wasnt too upset other than because i assumed i was getting whois protection i gave my home address home phone number instead of my business address and business number i normally would use.
so i fire off an email to namecheap asking why my whois is not protected.
they informed me that whois protection does not kick in for 24-48 hours after i register the domain.
now many people are aware that companies like DOMAINTOOLS.com ( whois.sc ) log all changes to domain records so thus it logs my real info and the whois guard enabled the next day..
i.e. if you own a namecheap domain with whois guard and go check it at www.whois.sc/domain.com you will see TWO history's for your records. one with the whoisguard , and one with the real info. |
Of course, you could easily get arround this issue by filling information such as :
Registrant : Protected by namecheap
Address : whois guard in cca 24 hours
Address : or 48 at the most
Phone : Tyvm.
Or somesuch.
While filling in FALSE information is actually illegal (in the sense it's an aggravating factor for any other illegal use of the domain name), filling in something like above would be fine.
Of course, you'd have to remember to update to proper information in say 72 hours. Or something.