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a few questions for #domains; 1: why does who.is (& others) share public information? 2: It seems like the amount of info shared changes per TLD 3: is spaceship[.]com a good domain host? I want one which hides this info so no one can just get all my info 💀 #website #internet

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MadeInDex 📰🌎
MadeInDex 📰🌎
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There are private hosts that display their information instead of yours. If you’d like, I can send you ours :)
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jack
jack
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how does that work?
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MadeInDex 📰🌎
MadeInDex 📰🌎
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Some #hosters have the option to act as a middleman. Therefore, their information is sent to the #WHOIS #database instead of yours :)
#database #hosters #whois
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Patrick Mevzek
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Please don't say "whois database". Whois is a protocol to query for data, and is now obsolete/deprecated, as replaced by RDAP. Registrars and registries are free to store data as they want (database or not) and then they make it available publicly, per their rules and contracts, typically on a whois server that you query with a whois client, or a website acting as one. And nowadays replace whois by RDAP in all previous sentences.
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MadeInDex 📰🌎
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Check our domain for example: who.is/whois/madeindex.org

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Patrick Mevzek
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NEVER use a third party to do whois query, you might get side effects you don't want, starting with logging your activity, possibly getting out of date content or just not authoritative one, fail to trivial attacks (JS in content), etc. Use a proper whois client on command line (make sure it asks registries directly, not third parties), OR go to registry website (for .org: pir.org/our-domains/whois-look… ) and do your query there.

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