Comments on: Personal Name Reputation & Authority

By: Ed Hines

Ed Hines — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:57:52 +0000

Interestingly the use of name and information brings up a good point… CAN YOU COPYRIGHT YOUR NAME AND ANY INFO ABOUT YOU? If possible then that may be the way to block and personal access???

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:29:15 +0000

And I lied…it looks like Google *cannot* read behind private whois:

Google cannot see past private registrations

From what I understand though, if whois cached your info *before* you applied private whois to a domain, then Goog could get its hands on the info.

By: Sapphire

Sapphire — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:46:58 +0000

That’s crazy. They’re making it about the webmaster, not the site.

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:09:14 +0000

Interesting developments about this, maybe Google really is as creepy as my tinfoil hat suggested a couple months ago:

Is Google profiling website owners?

Beating Your Google Rap Sheet

Oh and btw — Private Whois is not safe. They can see behind the curtain .

By: Jamie Birch

Jamie Birch — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 04:23:28 +0000

I would bet something like that is already happening. And just think about all the information they can retrieve on you. Have you purchased from a merchant using their checkout? So could they use that information, your purchases over a large number of merchants?

The one question I had was what if you use some of the privacy options when you register a domain?