Current issue with GoDaddy WHOIS lookups of Uni domains
Uniregistry has been transferring the management of domains belonging to a small group of accounts to GoDaddy. The transfer involves the management system only and is not a full transfer out to GoDaddy. Uniregistry domains that are now managed in a GoDaddy account are “blessed” with a plethora of upselling services. As such, the two […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.#GoDaddy removed the “Interested in purchasing this domain” option from #WHOIS contact form
GoDaddy has removed the option to contact the owner of a domain via its WHOIS, if you’re interested in buying it. When looking up domain names registered at GoDaddy, you can see underlying Registry data, contact the domain holder, or report an invalid WHOIS. When clicking on the option to contact the domain holder (registrant,) […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.#WHOIS wars : Withheld by #GoDaddy is a new #DomainTools warning tag
The war of WHOIS information is escalating, and DomainTools is on the offensive. GoDaddy is now keeping part of the publicly available WHOIS information private, for domains that are queried via third party tools. At first, we thought that DomainTools had a special agreement with the largest domain registrar in the world, to display the […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.#DomainTools in agreement with #GoDaddy over stunted #WHOIS ?
GoDaddy is going forward with a scandalous decision to filter WHOIS output from port 43 and third party tool queries, on January 25th. WHOIS output on the GoDaddy web site will be supported using a captcha as an anti-spam protection mechanism; in an email, GoDaddy claimed that the draconian measure will help limit spammer’s access […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.GoDaddy moves to reCaptcha system; the changes break domain WHOIS links
GoDaddy has given up its custom-made captcha system, used for the WHOIS queries page. After years of using a proprietary system to confirm the function is performed by a human, and not by “unscrupulous spammers,” GoDaddy moved to reCaptcha. The system is widely used by many companies, including DomainTools. There is, however, a small problem: […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.GoDaddy tricks DomainTools in new WHOIS
Shocking? GoDaddy is attempting to bypass the service of popular WHOIS tool, DomainTools.com Any WHOIS queries that are performed via DomainTools.com on domains that reside with GoDaddy as the registrar, are given a URL link instead, pointing to the GoDaddy platform, such as: For complete domain details go to: http://who.godaddy.com/whoischeck.aspx?Domain=domain.com This is a crafty method that GoDaddy is using to […]
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