moniker Privacy REMOVED across the board at MONIKER.COM - now it's legal action

[PRED]

It's now gone out of control at moniker
I randomly checked some domains at Moniker that I knew for a fact had privacy, including a domain I bought at sedo and transferred in adding 3 years + 3 years privacy
I checked when it came in just the other week and was privacy in domaintools, now showing my details
I checked another couple same thing

as if I haven't wasted enough of my time over the past few weeks/months with this JOKE of a company
I believe it's now time to file official complaints to appropriate bodies

can someone point me to best places to hurt keydrive and moniker where it matters?

bbb? icann?

these bastards are going to pay for their incompetence, this is affecting me and my business interests

I filed a 'ticket' but it does little to no good, even after the last debarcle they didn't have the common sense or decency to even manually do for me and reapply what I paid for or even notice, or fix or refund!

emailing ceo now

absolute incompetent assholes

 

[Biggie]

just use fake whois, cuz privacy is basically the same thing

 

[unagi]

^ until something happens to me like with .ca (who changed rules - even though i AM canadian i bought these off non canadians....) i have 1200+ names across registers so am not on top of things always - i guess ca changes rules i lost one which i got back when it dropped (but for seo lost history/age which sucks) couple others with non canadian info (ive updated now) i lost.

so i would say yes (though with what i do i take the precaution of privacy) ... but just make sure at least email is one you can get at etc... to me its just too big a risk as technically wrong / fake data can in many cases be grounds for losing a domain... but at least use different email you can get at if need be - honestly privcy costs a lot but id rather have it but im trying to be anonymous not to be found by buyers etc.

moniker i was pissed with the one solid pr5 i have there, i guess went like a day over expire date - luckily i noticed and fixed - but i need priv. and yet dont love moving registrars ever (again for seo age reasons... gone once i do that).

but its not one i like

i as all have to put up with go daddy despite how annoyed i am perpetually at them as too many perks with their market (for seo buyers like me anyway)

but when i pick or reg new now i love name.com best, namecheap i would love but i hate their interface (name again wins here)
dynadot i score some amazing deals on solid dropping domains.... so have few hundred there

i like them but their privacy is pseudo privacy - they explain why well (basically name still shows) i get around this by entering dif. fake organization names - rest stays private then

but name.com all the way ... in my book

enom i have more than i wish just as ive been buying a lot on namejet

 

[Biggie]

if you like to be anonymous, fabulous offers free privacy to all names registered there

 

[katherine]

If you want to be "anonymous", you need more than mere whois privacy. At least, use a corporation or make something up. It's better than relying on a buggy registrar with a weak privacy scheme that can be lifted for so many reasons.
Fake whois is not the solution, and is against registration rules. Unless you don't mind losing the domain.
Incorporate and take advantage of tax benefits.

I just checked a domain that is at register.com, because an offer was received through Se.do.
The domain is on privacy but we didn't ask for it...

 

[INFORG]

I see a lot of complaints about privacy lately. Can someone enlighten me - I've been doing this a long time and never felt the need for privacy, why do so many seem to need it? What are you trying to stay hidden from? Porn names? Trademarks? Are you not trying to sell these names? I just don't get it.

 

[SpareDomains]

Business Name
P.O. Box
Cell Phone
Email= whois@(your company here).com so ya know anything that comes to it is from whois look ups

 

[unagi]

I see a lot of complaints about privacy lately. Can someone enlighten me - I've been doing this a long time and never felt the need for privacy, why do so many seem to need it? What are you trying to stay hidden from? Porn names? Trademarks? Are you not trying to sell these names? I just don't get it.

for me this is seo (greyhat) and the question of being able to have private domain whois, private and/or extremely diverse nameservers for each domain ... and then as a rule hosting on unique dedicated ips.

why?

to be blunt, so you can build up little sites on these aged pr domains and/or just related relevant ones and use them as you own sources of backlinks.

this is basically what 'private blog networks' are - the reason google came down so hard on them is that - they work very well!
and especially when setup correctly and only used for oneself (as soon as you have links being sold or traded or guest posts anything where others are utilizing the network it becomes progressively more vulnerable)

but for me thats the issue. others might just want to avoid spam

unagi


ps - will look into that free privacy registrar (part of best practices for this stuff is to spread registrars amongst many as well, so i always like to add more to my mix anyway.... at name.com coupon code: PRIVACYPLEASE has always knocked off their 3.99 i think it is fee (but as with most things like this, only for the first year as i noticed when renewal time started coming back around !

 

[unagi]

If you want to be "anonymous", you need more than mere whois privacy. At least, use a corporation or make something up. It's better than relying on a buggy registrar with a weak privacy scheme that can be lifted for so many reasons.
Fake whois is not the solution, and is against registration rules. Unless you don't mind losing the domain.
Incorporate and take advantage of tax benefits.

I just checked a domain that is at register.com, because an offer was received through Se.do.
The domain is on privacy but we didn't ask for it...

those doing what im describing best will BOTH use fake info & private whois (losing domains one way or another is a reality with blog nets - though very rare if done right and not ownership - deindexing (might as well be the same thing)...

if doing this kind of thing chances are its cause you're in a rather profitable niche or it wouldn't be worth the expenses (or as hard to rank good keywords) so whois privacy - even if google and others (im in the middle of my first TM issue - a lovely experience though its nothing i paid more than 12$ for and happy to let it go... but it got messed up and is insane how stupidly complicated that became.... so yes in that case whoisguard was removed....

my point being though the more you can prevent your direct competition from being able to easily dissect your methods and network the better... so private whois is for that too.
... im sure my competition knows i have a network - but how big or how it is linked together etc. and hosted they dont