Banned for Bogus whois

[Xeno]

Originally Posted by tigermom

Also, my domains have privacy on them. ...but because I'd like to protect my privacy from any punters who might be looking around. I have a mainstream business that I do not wish to be associated with my adult business. I also have small children and I prefer not to have their mommy's name up on the net in association with adult sites. Anyway, so far I see that my freesites are accepted pretty much everywhere, so I'm guessing it's not that much of an issue? or am I wrong here?

I personally frown on those who reject on private domain whois...its even more important now to keep your personal information private and to ensure security. This info can definitely be used for nasty things when people, marketers, spammers, can take full advantage of this (or worse)...and they definitely look at whois details. Like you said Tigermom, you run a mainstream business (just as I do) and you dont' want this associated with the adult side. And those who have kids, well, this is another critical factor in "not" displaying whois info. I recently found out alexa collected and posted my personal address I had from before...I sent them an email stating how FURIOUS I was that they did that without MY PERMISSION. Overall, I personally use private whois.

Getting banned, blacklisted, whatever, by anyone because of the occasional scammers out there, why should "everyone" who is legit and honest pay the price...

I do agree though that self dns's can be a problem.