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Just a reminder of how powerful the whois command is and what it can say (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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Make sure that you tell your registrar that you want to be anonymous.

Edit: wow I missed the phone number censor. I guess that proves my point even farther.

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[–] nick@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago

Bout ten years ago I pissed off some GNAA idiot trolls on twitter, so they did a whois on my domain. I never updated it from my mom’s address so over the course of a week my mom got three cases of qurans and several large pizza orders (10+ pizzas each time), all of which she declined to accept.

Lucky she didn’t get swatted, though this was before they became such a big thing.

You bet your ass all my domains now have privacy settings enabled.