There appears to be a growing problem with the monitoring of domain searches at certain registrars and whois websites, and the use of such data to enable unscrupulous domain tasting or kiting.
It happens like this:
- You think of a domain name that you would like to register.
- You check at a registrar or whois website and find that it's still available.
- For some reason, you delay registering it for a few minutes.
- When you go back to get it, you find that in that short space of time it's been taken!
Coincidence? Very occasionally. But repeated tests with obscure domain names like 7hq9e0syf541.com have shown beyond reasonable doubt that there's more to it than that.
Here is a summary of our position on this, so that you may have complete confidence in iWhois.
- We never register any domains searched at iWhois, either for ourselves or others.
- Our website software never writes any searched domains to a database.
- We never access or extract such data from our server logfiles. These are emptied daily.
- When you search an available domain at iWhois, only the relevant registry is queried.
- No data is passed to any other company during or after each domain search.
Finally, iWhois has become particularly popular among domain professionals and so it would be a gross violation of trust were we ever to act otherwise. This policy is not subject to future change.
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