Posts Tagged ‘Whois Database’

Who is Blocking WHOIS?

Monday, June 7th, 2010
On April 16 ICANN issued a breach notice to Turkish Registrar Alantron for not consistently providing access to its WHOIS database via Port 43, a command-line query location that all Registrars are required to supply under conditions of their contract with ICANN under section 3.3.1 . Four days later they issued a breach to Internet Group do Brazil for the same problem . WHOIS is a critical ...

WHOIS Privacy for Domain Names Launched

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Weycrest have introduced Whois Privacy for Domains Names . This is sometimes known as private domains or private registrations. One of the issues of registering your domain is that your personal data, address, email etc is stored in the WHOIS database for all to see. This isn’t normally a problem, however some customers were concerned about identity theft issues. So now we are registering certain domains with privacy turned on by default, and customers can remove this if they wish. It is an

WHOIS Privacy for Domain Names Launched

Sunday, September 6th, 2009
Weycrest have introduced Whois Privacy for Domains Names . This is sometimes known as private domains or private registrations. One of the issues of registering your domain is that your personal data, address, email etc is stored in the WHOIS database for all to see. This isn’t normally a problem, however some customers were concerned about identity theft issues. So now we are registering certain domains with privacy turned on by default, and customers can remove this if they wish. It is an

WHOIS Privacy for Domain Names Launched

Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Weycrest have introduced Whois Privacy for Domains Names. This is sometimes known as private domains or private registrations. One of the issues of registering your domain is that your personal data, address, email etc is stored in the WHOIS database for all to see. This isn’t normally a problem, however some customers were concerned about identity theft issues. So now we are registering certain domains with privacy turned on by default, and customers can remove this if they wish. It is an IC

Tips to Grab Expired Domains Through Back Ordering Process- Part I

Monday, October 13th, 2008
In general, domain expiry and deletion cycle is a different process with different registrars and domain name registers. It is a well known fact that a number of registrars enter into partnership with different domain auctioning services. Before a domain name expires, the registrars will keep it in an expired status for 35 days. Under the usual circumstances, the domain that expires will not be visible in a WHOIS database, as the registrars will add an extra year to the registration. If you wan