davet Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 How do some registrars and hosting providers offer free private whois? Are they simply just changing the contact info to a default private address and not charging? If so can this feature be added to WHMCS? I currently use enom and their private whois for customers but they charge extra for private whois. Can I just offer a private contact we administer for the private contact info so i can offer Free Private Whois? Any thoughts? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easyhosting Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 How do some registrars and hosting providers offer free private whois? Are they simply just changing the contact info to a default private address and not charging? If so can this feature be added to WHMCS? I currently use enom and their private whois for customers but they charge extra for private whois. Can I just offer a private contact we administer for the private contact info so i can offer Free Private Whois? Any thoughts? Whis information is controlled by the registrar (enom, go daddy, 123-reg etc) and cannot be controlled by any othr parties. yes some charge and some don't. its just like you go to 1 store and find and item for $1 and go to another and this same item is $1.50, everyone has different prices. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davet Posted April 5, 2010 Author Share Posted April 5, 2010 (edited) Why can't it be control by another party? What is stopping me from offer free private whois to my customers by simply changing the contact info on their domain registration to something such as: NAME: Private Registration EMAIL: private@interactiveonline.com ADDRESS: (just list our company address) For example, BlueHost used to charge $4.95/year extra for private whois but it is now free. According to https://www.bluehost.com/privacy.html it seems as if they just change the contact info on the domain registration to point to a private address they setup and manage. Edited April 5, 2010 by davet 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easyhosting Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 Why can't it be control by another party? What is stopping me from offer free private whois to my customers by simply changing the contact info on their domain registration to something such as: NAME: Private Registration EMAIL: private@interactiveonline.com ADDRESS: (just list our company address) For example, BlueHost used to charge $4.95/year extra for private whois but it is now free. According to https://www.bluehost.com/privacy.html it seems as if they just change the contact info on the domain registration to point to a private address they setup and manage. when you register a domain, all details are logged in at the registrar. after you register a domain, if you go to that domain within your account with the registrar then yes you can change address, email address, but you cannot change the registrant name or classification. for a .uk name to do this you have to contact nominet, who charge £10.50+VAT 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgrayban Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 I'd like to point out the main problem with a Private whois. According to ICANN the owner of the domain is the person listed in the whois, private or not. In the US there was a large case in court over this when a domain was cancelled due to legal reasons. The domain had a private whois. In court the rules of ICANN ruled in favor of the private whois company, in this case it was godaddy, was the true owner. Read your contract with them... they can not claim you own the domain still if they are in the whois. ICANN ruled this years ago. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woods01 Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 The last time I checked you were required to accept snail mail for domain contact information. To accept snail mail on another partys behalf generally you would need written consent provided with the proper postal service form(s) (if in the USA). However I know that some large privacy protection services say right in the whois that snail mail is rejected so im assuming you don't have to even provide a post box. These services list a mail drop to accept certified mail, so to accept certified mail on anothers behalf you would probably want to contact your postal service to make sure your in compliance with the law. We do it on a small scale for clients that host with us but doing it for general domain clients could get a little tricky. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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