When registering a domain name, you're required to provide personal contact information for the WHOIS database, which is a directory showing who is the owner of a domain. While this promotes trust and ...
A flaw in Google's Apps domain renewal system has resulted in the exposure of over 280,000 hidden WHOIS records. On Thursday, Cisco security researchers reported that a problem in the Google Apps ...
So anyone using this same whois privacy service no risks being labelled a serial cyber-sqautter even if they have nothing to do with these previous cases The panel went on to award the domain to the ...
A Google Apps bug leaked hidden WHOIS registrant information in the clear, putting close to 300,000 domain owners at risk for identity theft, phishing scams and more. Google has notified hundreds of ...
Buying a domain name is often an exciting experience, whether it’s your very first domain or the 100th! But before you get to that, there are two less fun tasks to go through: the first is to find the ...
You have probably heard about the GDPR and its consequences a hundred times by now, but for clarity let’s do a quick recap. The GDPR is a new regulation by the European Union created around the ...
WHOIS, one of oldest tools on internet for verifying real identities, at risk of being killed due to tough new GDPR regulations Sweeping new European data protection regulations may have the ...
Whois, an online database that contains personal information about Internet domain name holders, is a major contributor to identity theft and defies advice from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), ...