(1) That's not true. (2) I don't squat domains, as I said in
Posted on: January 12, 2021 at 22:19:26 CT
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I know the industry well, and there is absolutely no tool that can bypass "whois privacy" to reveal the owner of a privately registered domain. And laws are *increasing* the privacy rights of domain owners, not decreasing them.
For privately registered domains, only the registrar knows the owner, and they are NOT required to pass it along to ICANN or the central registry. Therefore, the only way to determine who owns a privately registered domain is through a court order to the registrar, and there has to be legal grounds for that.
Again, I do not squat domains. I do careful due diligence to avoid domains with ACPA/UDRP risk when I register or bid on them at auction. So even if my domain registrations were public, I would have no concern.
The fact you think there's a tool that can bypass WHOIS privacy shows how naive and/or uninformed you are. There are WHOIS history database and tools that can search them, but those are limited to information that's been made public at some point via WHOIS or DNS.