heepbigchief asked 4 years ago
What does one do when all the contacts listed in a Whois report are all fake?
RTechEmail: false
RNOCEmail: false
RAbuseEmail: false
RTechEmail: false
If they are inoperable/failure to deliver/whatever that makes the information fake so aren't there some rules that go along with this to maintain updated information or can they just give a valid email address long enough for someone to test it and then shut it off or change it to something else?
Shnerdly Staff answered 4 years ago
The information in the whois registry is not very often up to date. The information is entered at the time a domain is registered and frequently the information changes along the way but people don't think to update the info.
I contacted a person through the whois info about a year ago to see about acquiring a domain name that was owned but not being used. The person replied with what he knew which was that he had sold the domain name 2 years prior and the whois record was never updated.
Rob Vargas Staff answered 4 years ago
Don't forget, also, that after some troubles, ICANN permitted private registrations as well.