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whitey · 2009-02-27, 11:56 AM

Domain Tools has been out there for quite awhile and this has been possible - not sure when they actually converted from whois.sc to domiantools.com.

It happens to be a very good site with a veritable treasure trove of information for those in the domain business. The downside is that it is possible to look up registry histories going back in to the last decade.

The whole privacy thing if you are in the adult business is difficult to manage. I have a mainstream business that has outside investors that invest in web businesses and are quite saavy about researcing their portfolio companies' leadership online history, and porn involvement will most often bounce you out of a final review no matter how strong the business plan. There are a rash of other issues that come with the whole public whois thing as well.

On the other hand, link lists and some other people in the adult business are not unreasonable to expect that they know who they are dealing with as it is not a good return on their time to continually deal with a raft of anonymus people who at best waste their time and at worst cause invasive problems to their customers and guests.

Having recently decided to be more active in adult again after a couple of years of non-engagement, this is an issue that I have been grappling with. At this moment, I have decided to set up a separate company at a different address for my adult business, and allow that to become my brand name. It is going to take me a couple of more weeks to complete the process, but it is the best solution that I could come up with to retain credibility in both worlds. The expense of setting up a new company is not large (the accounting at year-end is a bit more for an independent operator), there are some people starting to operate third party 2257 docs holders so inspections should not be a problem (but they cost a bit), and the benefits are keeping your name clean for any mainstream business you may do (for the culturally conservative noobs) and preventing some of the other more untoward things that periodically happen to adult webmasters as a result of public whois.

2009-02-27, 11:56 AM	#2
whitey Hey, can you take the wheel for a second, I have to scratch my self in two places at once Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 186	Domain Tools has been out there for quite awhile and this has been possible - not sure when they actually converted from whois.sc to domiantools.com. It happens to be a very good site with a veritable treasure trove of information for those in the domain business. The downside is that it is possible to look up registry histories going back in to the last decade. The whole privacy thing if you are in the adult business is difficult to manage. I have a mainstream business that has outside investors that invest in web businesses and are quite saavy about researcing their portfolio companies' leadership online history, and porn involvement will most often bounce you out of a final review no matter how strong the business plan. There are a rash of other issues that come with the whole public whois thing as well. On the other hand, link lists and some other people in the adult business are not unreasonable to expect that they know who they are dealing with as it is not a good return on their time to continually deal with a raft of anonymus people who at best waste their time and at worst cause invasive problems to their customers and guests. Having recently decided to be more active in adult again after a couple of years of non-engagement, this is an issue that I have been grappling with. At this moment, I have decided to set up a separate company at a different address for my adult business, and allow that to become my brand name. It is going to take me a couple of more weeks to complete the process, but it is the best solution that I could come up with to retain credibility in both worlds. The expense of setting up a new company is not large (the accounting at year-end is a bit more for an independent operator), there are some people starting to operate third party 2257 docs holders so inspections should not be a problem (but they cost a bit), and the benefits are keeping your name clean for any mainstream business you may do (for the culturally conservative noobs) and preventing some of the other more untoward things that periodically happen to adult webmasters as a result of public whois. __________________ Erotica Blogs: SEO Softcore Blog Directory. Register and Submit Here Last edited by whitey; 2009-02-27 at 11:58 AM..