Aside from better maple syrup and hockey sticks, Canada now also does domain WHOIS better than the USA:
http://cira.ca/en/media-room/news/225.html
OTTAWA, Ontario, June 11, 2008 – The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) announced today that it has launched a new privacy policy and WHOIS search tool to protect the privacy of dot-ca domain name registrants. The new policy limits public access to personal information except under extraordinary circumstances or through explicit consent of the registrant.
Under the new policy the personal information of individual domain name registrants, including registrant name, home address, phone number and e-mail address, will now be automatically protected as private. Full registration information for corporate domain name holders will continue to be accessible and individual registrants may choose to make their information accessible.
http://cira.ca/en/Whois/whois-backgrounder.html
Amendment to the CIRA Dispute Resolution Policy (CDRP) Rules
- The new WHOIS Policy may make it more difficult for an individual or organization to prove that a domain was registered by another party in bad faith.
CIRA proposed in the second public consultation to amend the CDRP Rules, making it easier for the complainant to provide proper evidence in order to prove their case. This solution maintains maximum privacy protection while ensuring the effectiveness of the CDRP.
Adopting these rules for all TLDs will not only radically reduce spam, stalking, and fear of freely expressing one’s self, but will put an end to whois-privacy extortion. Currently GoDaddy whois-privacy plan must be paid indefinately. Cancelling at any point reveals the hidden information. There is currently NO procedure to change the underlying whois informaiton PRIOR to cancelling whois-privacy. Fat lot of good that is to the consumer.
Sagacious Himself,
Please [believe] that Go Daddy does have a procedure for modifying the masked WHOIS information while a domain name is private [unfortunately there is NO link to that information in this response]. The privacy service Go Daddy uses is provided by Domains By Proxy [also owned by GoDaddy], and instructions for changing contact information is [not] available from the Domains By Proxy FAQ page:
http://products.secureserver.net/products/domains_by_proxy/dbp_faq.htm
I hope this helps you and your readers feel more confident about using Go Daddy as a registrar [NoDaddy.com]. For additional assistance relating to Go Daddy accounts, please contact our 24 hour Sales and Support team at 480.505.8877. For assistance with Domains By Proxy accounts, call 480.624.2599 (this is also available 24 hours a day).
Alon
Go Daddy
Comment by godaddyoop — November 12, 2008 @ 9:29 am
@GoDaddy
in typical fashion you have NOT provided the directions I indicated you do not have.
Where is the direct link to said information? ah, yes, there isn’t one.
One must pay Domains By Proxy EXTORTION until google becomes not evil or one’s personal information will be leaked to the OFTEN scraped database.
One cannot use all 150 gigs of the 150 gigs purchased in a “deluxe” (crippled) linux webhosting account.
Calling GoDaddy is a colossal waste of time.
Emailing GoDaddy is a vexatious experience.. they don’t even bother reading the email before responding. That’s not a reply.
http://Monkier.com for the sagacious
Comment by Sagacious Himself — November 15, 2008 @ 4:16 pm