Most shady registrar in history?
 

DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States

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Any time I research a company/domain name that I suspect doing something not quite right I get to that WHOIS.......

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Isn't that GoDaddy?

They are not a registrar Oystein, they are part of godaddy I believe, privacy side. might be wrong on the godaddy bit.



Woops hi Dean....

yes godaddy

I clicked into this thread thinking Godaddy, and what do you know?

Mentioned already... twice. Edit: make that thrice.

Part of Godaddy, yes.

Well, that makes that part of Godaddys services very shady to me. :Oh crap

Sup Dean? :-)

I think that the original intent of the service is good... Joe Blow wants a website about fishing lures and doesn't want the world knowing his name and address, a little privacy with his freedom of expression. It simply gets abused by less than savory individuals. It's a loop hole.

Network Solutions. Hands down. Domain name front running? Did you forget? And I know for a fact in the mid 1990s they had people working for them accepting bribes to hold all 2 and 3 character domain names hostage cost-free to be sold to the highest bidder.

estdomains is/was pretty damn shady in my book.

Agree, and it is a shame. Privacy is good in some instances, but when certain billing companies/customer service companies use it to hide who they really are, well then I think it is going above what is accepted.

Transparency is key and our industry should have that to prove that we are not out to fuck customers, just to show fucky things on screen for customers pleasure.

registerfly

That's just a Whois masking service :)

quoted for the truth! I had to work my ass off to save so many of my domains with them and let a few go that weren't worth the whoops to save :disgust

and the sad thing is i still get renewal emails from them for domains they don't have of mine anymore