Talk:Domains by Proxy

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— JIP | Talk 20:09, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Some thoughts

fauxdaddy.org redirects to godaddy.com and the blog post does not say very much. Is it a suitable wiki entry? --Lord Matt 12:08, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

POV issue

The article describes how the proxy service is helpful to domain registrants in that it protects them from spammers. It does not mention the problems for end users who might experience browser hijacks, slander/libel and other difficulties. Micahmedia (talk) 23:36, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

(Moved my comment to the Discussion on the Domain privacy topic - Lokatone (talk) 14:07, 19 April 2009 (UTC))[reply]

Domain tasting?

It has been rumored for years that GoDaddy has Domains by Proxy auto-purchase domain names that are considered lucrative. Numerous anecdotes of domains being available, and then 5 minutes after a check via GoDaddy they are suddenly already purchased, registered and made unavailable by Domains by Proxy, to the extent that many domainers (people that buy & sell domains) refuse to use GoDaddy in order to check to see if a particular domain name is available.Jonny Quick (talk) 01:45, 10 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This isn't really domain tasting. It's more like domain name front running. Go Daddy may have done so in the past, but doesn't appear to do so now. I entered an unlikely, silly URL into the Go Daddy WHOIS database search, pimp-my-wiki.com, and it was reported as "available". I checked it again 20 minutes later and it was still available. — Quicksilver^{T @} 20:48, 9 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Quite notable, alas

"Domains by Proxy" is a screen for numerous special interest and political action websites. Hence, if a web citizen sees a "Sign this to free the whales from mascara testing and make them free range," the web page itself may resolve to Domains by Proxy. That, by itself, might just mean the site is cheap, but it has, in the past, also meant that the site is data mining or creepy. As more and more "click here to sign the petition" and "click here to take action" links appear, mailing lists are getting longer, and anonymous hosting services like this are becoming more and more politically. . . notable. 64.234.66.158 (talk) 12:19, 22 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]