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| Protect Your Domain Research |
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Lots of people in the domain industry have suspected it but hard evidence is finally emerging that people are spying on your domain research. Basically, if you're searching for a domain but don't buy it immediately, there is a good chance that someone will get there ahead of you. Click here to read the relevant EWeek article. So how do you protect your privacy?. Simple - create your own WhoIs look-up. Save the following code as a file called whois.php and upload it to your server. Voila! You can see ours at www.alledia.com/whois.php. Thanks to members of NamePros.com for this tip. Download the DIY WhoIs (.zip file) Set as favorite Bookmark
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Comments (3)
  written by Rick Russell, October 12, 2007
Hello, it seems the whois.php took me to a 404 error, as well as the sitemap link on the 404 page.. Just FYI!!!
  written by Steve Burge, October 12, 2007
Thanks Rik
I fixed the 404 (we'd turned SEF URLs of on Joomap) and will see if I can put the whois back online. Steve  written by Good Web Practices, October 15, 2007
I've seen this before, and also fallen victim to it myself! Now I only check if domain names are free from hosts I trust (e.g. surftown) Have to say I completely understand why this is done and sympathise to some extent, but think its unacceptable unless there was some sort of small print about it.
Thanks for the DIY whois - useful! P.s. I'm getting the 404 too... Write comment
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