5% of domains have dodgy registration details

mat on Thu, 2005-12-08 10:21.

Search marketing

7 comments

From a BBC report - US warns of fake net domain data

More than 5% of the net's most popular domains have been registered using "patently false" data, research shows.

A US congressional report into who owns .com, .net and .org domains found that many owners were hiding their true identity.

Tsk. Tsk.

Comments

Those of you without sin..

cornwall on Thu, 2005-12-08 10:59.

..cast the first stone.

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lots0 on Thu, 2005-12-08 11:34.

Only 5%???
That has to be a way low figure.
I would have thought it was more like 35% or 40%.

When some search engines

graywolf on Thu, 2005-12-08 12:41.

When some search engines provide a financial disincentive to tell the truth what do you expect?

"financial disincentive to tell the truth "

cornwall on Thu, 2005-12-08 12:46.

What is the difference anyway between putting porkies on Whois, and paying to have your details witheld?

Having 50 different interconected domains all registered at same registrar with private whois info looks a little funny. Having 5 domains at 10 registrars with your real name and adresss, your sisters different married name and address, your mom's maiden name and address, and a few private ones thrown in looks a lot less funny.

looks a lot less funny at

seobook on Thu, 2005-12-08 13:13.

looks a lot less funny

at least until they build their ancestry site :)

Gilad on Sun, 2005-12-11 00:26.

wouldn't surprise me if they eventually do... :-)
5% does seem like a low figure , yet I guess random names
from the whitepages are'nt considered "dodgy".