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Excerpt: The other day I wrote a post about privacy whois on domain name records and mentioned one of the upsides of privacy whois, and that is that you benefit from the protection of scammers not being able to find out your details to contact you directly. Well here is an example of one of the many scams . Its called the “domain appraisal scam”. Below is a screenshot of my inbox this morning showing 3 emails from the same company, a company calling themselves “Domain Sale LLC”. The body of their obviously automated email is as follows: “Dear sir, we are interested to purchase…

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Excerpt: So what exactly is domain name privacy and why would you need it? Domain name records more commonly known as the “WhoIs” record are stored online in the public domain, which means like land registry details, the details of the registrant is available online for anyone to see and lookup. Of course this means that anyone looking to contact you or find where you are, they simply look up your WhoIs record and take the information. It should be noted that ICANN regulations state that you are not permitted to falsify WhoIs information, so putting false information is not allowed and is…

Protect Your Privacy When You Register Your Domain is a post from: Cloud Mixer - Mixing New Media Ideas