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Originally Posted by Mark.Roy
yeah, that's extortion ,
they are scumbags.,
tried contacting them previously to remove one of our clients old details , they asked money, client refused to pay and went on their website and clicked adsense ads 100 times everyday for couple of days.
i told client that whois data is public, he should have thought that before putting it in.
but this business model is somewhat like the mugshot sites model, extortion.
correct me if i am wrong.
expect to see more sites like this as they are preparing for apiwhois service .
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Man that sucks. I just have my phone number on one adult domain which mistakenly got put there. I had trouble placing an order for a domain and so I called in. Unknown to me the rep at the registrar changed the phone number to my personal one (from my business number) when we were trying to get it to go through. I had thought he was doing it just for purposes of the order but no the ass put it on the whois contact. Two months later I see my phone number popping up in Google for a gay domain!
I changed the whois immediately but it looks like these assholes got it and it's in their history.
It looks like I will either have to change my personal phone number or try the "bury it in bullshit" technique where you spam false positives of the information you want to hide to thousands of websites in order to try to bury the real result in the rankings.
I'm not sure that it makes any sense to pay since they could start 12 other sites secretly and then make you pay $39.95 for each site. Once you pay it's just more incentive to put it out there somewhere else since they know you are willing to pay out to get it removed. It's like blackmail in other words.