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Newbie domain registrant discovers Whois, has Twitter meltdown
Kevin Murphy,
April 26, 2012, 12:36:28 (UTC),
Domain Tech
The need for the domain name industry to enforce accurate Whois is often cited by law enforcement and intellectual property interests as a consumer protection measure.
But most regular internet users haven’t got a clue that Whois even exists, let alone what data it contains or how to use it.
A study (pdf) carried out for ICANN’s Whois Review Team last year found that only 24% of consumers know what Whois is.
This stream of tweets I chanced across this afternoon, from what appears to be a first-time domain registrant, is probably more representative of consumer attitudes to Whois.
UPDATE (April 27): I’ve removed the tweets per the request of the Twitter user in question.
Made my day
Awesome!
hi-larious
HAHAHAHA!
Well, I know what whois is, but never heard of domaintools and UK2.net So can someone tell me why or what she was having a meltdown over?
UK2 is a domain registrar slash web hosting company. DomainTools aggregates Whois records.
“Omg, I’m IN THE PHONEBOOK. How dare they? What do I do now?!”
Honestly, I can’t believe some people are so clueless. This made me laugh out loud.
Wow. Oh. Wow.
These tweets are great!
I have definitively seen this trend that people have no idea about whois and are angry when they find out their info is online.
It’s amusing on one level, but forcing registrars to publish registrants details to the public without any restrictions is fundamentally flawed
“It’s amusing on one level, but forcing registrars to publish registrants details to the public without any restrictions is fundamentally flawed”
Its like t’internet then….
Whois at a whole is not a very well thought out process. I’d much rather see a semi-public thick whois behind a CAPTCHA “wall” with graded access levels.
WOW….hahahahaha
Reminds me of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ
“haha”
Reminds me of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7yD-0pqZg
I see the user also made her Twitter account private. Maybe she didn’t realize that was public, too.