Re:Facebook sues Namecheap
by lima on Thursday March 05, 2020 @09:09PM
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I worked for a European domain registrar a few years ago.
An obviously malicious site like "whatsappdownload.site" would be taken offline very quickly, but under no circumstances could we give non-public subscriber information to a third party without a warrant.
> You're glad Namecheap is protecting the registrant of "whatsappdownload.site"?
In most cases I've seen, registrant data would either be fake, the result of identity theft, or an innocent customer's whose account got hacked.
An obviously malicious site like "whatsappdownload.site" would be taken offline very quickly, but under no circumstances could we give non-public subscriber information to a third party without a warrant.
> You're glad Namecheap is protecting the registrant of "whatsappdownload.site"?
In most cases I've seen, registrant data would either be fake, the result of identity theft, or an innocent customer's whose account got hacked.