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kruser
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reply to Devanchya
Re: illegal

said by Devanchya See Profile :

I've only ever had ONE person contact me via who is. It was someone who was looking for a person with my name and a bad debt.

I've marked it private since then... just because.

Really the whois was meant to contact someone who was having server issues. Really not needed as much now.
I was contacted by someone wanting to design my website within days of registering the name.
He said he got the info from whois.
I made it private right then and never had another problem.
I also thought it was a matter of policy that a running site has a webmaster email address in place for people to contact you if needed.
I'm sure this is highly abused and I never did setup that email.
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